Adrian Cole

I am a Cloud Architect

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Platform · SaaS · 9 months

Self-Service Kubernetes Platform

Fourteen teams shared one snowflake cluster and a ticket queue. We built an EKS platform with golden-path service templates, preview environments per pull request, and policy guardrails via Kyverno — platform tickets dropped 80% in a quarter.

Infrastructure code on a dark screen from the platform build
Self-Service Kubernetes PlatformPlatform · EKS · 9 months80% fewer platform tickets
  1. Golden paths, not tickets

    Service templates stamp out pipelines, dashboards, alerts and cost labels in one pull request — the supported way is also the easiest way.

  2. Preview env per pull request

    Every PR gets a live environment in nine minutes. Reviewing a change means clicking a URL, not reading YAML diffs.

  3. Guardrails that explain themselves

    Kyverno policies warn for a sprint before they block, with links to the fix. Teams keep the rules instead of bypassing them.

Golden paths beat headcount. Small platform teams support hundreds of engineers.
−80%platform tickets
14teams onboarded
9 minPR to preview env
  • EKS
  • ArgoCD
  • Kyverno
  • Karpenter

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