Don't forget the release automation

As the cloud-native environment becomes increasingly complex and dynamic, it presents numerous challenges for platform teams. Managing software development manually is difficult and prone to human error and security issues, making automation essential for reducing workload and increasing security.

Developers find it difficult to manage Kubernetes, let alone understand it when troubleshooting or developing in a shift left world. Internal developer portals can be used to abstract and whitelist K8s data and set standards through scorecards.

This session will cover how an internal developer portal and platform helps organizations, the current state of the internal developer portal product category, and the future of internal developer portals.

In this talk Lothar shares how to create docker images with Kotlin and Gradle only. Lothar will showcase a ktor application as well as create and deploy a Docker image that contains the application to a Kubernetes cluster. The deployment happens on the command line only - every code change will trigger an instant deployment of a newly created Docker image to a Kubernetes cluster.