Lars Hesel Christensen & Basil Brunner
Improving Developer Happiness with GitOps
#1about 8 minutes
How business strategy drives the need for integration
Helvetia's strategic focus on customer ecosystems and omnichannel experiences creates a strong business case for improving API integration capabilities.
#2about 6 minutes
Overcoming the friction of manual API deployment
Exposing REST APIs traditionally involves significant friction due to manual coordination between development, security, and network teams, leading to long delays.
#3about 7 minutes
Building a resilient and scalable API gateway
The integration platform uses an API gateway with a decoupled control and data plane architecture, allowing for resilient and low-latency deployments close to backend services.
#4about 5 minutes
Adopting a GitOps workflow for API management
Using a Git repository as the single source of truth, API configurations are managed through a pull request workflow that automates provisioning across multiple systems.
#5about 3 minutes
How to define and subscribe to APIs as code
API producers and consumers use a declarative YAML format, based on OpenAPI v3 specs, to define services and manage subscriptions within the Git repository.
#6about 5 minutes
Automating governance and validation with PR checks
The GitOps process automatically validates API definitions for correctness, semantics, and security compliance during the pull request, providing instant feedback to developers.
#7about 5 minutes
Boosting developer happiness and the future of self-service
This self-service model empowers developers and reduces cycle time, with future plans to fully automate approvals and extend the GitOps pattern to other resources like Kafka and S3.
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