A Micro Open-Source Community with Helm
Earlier on this week, I was one of the speakers at KubeCon + CloudNative North America in San Diego. During my session, I addressed how Condé Nast established a culture that enables the furtherance of initiatives similar to the ones in the open-source community. In this blog post, I would like to highlight methods and support topologies that contributed to the creation of internal micro open-source communities while using Helm.
Preamble
2 years ago, Condé Nast triggered the rollout of a centralised platform across the globe, that would eliminate inconsistencies and duplication of deployment mechanisms. At this stage, 22 websites were migrated and more than 265 million requests are served from our backend systems monthly.
Note: To find out more about the global platform at Condé Nast, read my blog post on A Centralised Globally Distributed Platform.
Developer Experience (DevExp)
The cloud platform team are dedicated advocates for a self-service deployment process and continuous enhancement…