A Micro Open-Source Community with Helm

Katie Gamanji
The Startup
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5 min readNov 20, 2019

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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.

Photo by Syed Hussaini on Unsplash

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)

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Katie Gamanji
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Sailing open-source tooling and supporting the community as an Senior Kubernetes Field Engineer @Apple

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