Building an Agile Platform in a Highly Regulated Industry

Explore how a leading Nordic insurance company built an agile platform using Kubernetes, Linkerd, and GitOps within a highly regulated industry in this 42-minute conference talk. Learn about If-Insurance's journey to balance rapid innovation with strict security and regulatory requirements. Discover their GitOps-based platform, application deployment engine, and techniques for remaking software management. Gain insights into their immutable platform for constant disaster recovery training, the GitOps-driven platform construction, and the process of onboarding teams to shift from traditional deployment to a GitOps mindset. Delve into topics such as managing Kubernetes, on-premises connectivity, environment principles, scaling strategies, microservice architecture, and the adoption of service mesh and observability tools.

Introduction
Jonas Samuelson
Agenda
About IF
Technology Landscape
Constraints
Starting point
Managing Kubernetes
Onprem connectivity
Environments
Principles
Maintenance
Building the Platform
Scaling
Platform repo
Platform teams
Notification controller
Teams channel
Microservice architecture
Branches strategy
Customize strategy
Immutable platform
Pulses
Service Mesh
Network Insight
Thanos
Team Onboarding
QA
How did you deal with it
How did you get your customers onboard
How do you manage test data
Central teams
Other questions
Adoption of the platform