A sophisticated GitLab CI/CD pipeline integrated with Argo CD was ultimately rejected in favour of simple FTP deployment, offering crucial insights into the real barriers facing cloud-native adoption in traditional organisations.
David Pech, Staff Cloud Ops Engineer at Wrike and holder of all CNCF certifications, shares his experience supporting a PHP team after a company merger. He details how he built a complete cloud-native platform with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and GitOps workflows, only to see it fail against cultural and organizational resistance despite its technical superiority.
You will learn:
The hidden costs of sophisticated tooling - How GitOps pipelines with multiple moving parts can create trust issues when developers lose local control and must rely on remote processes they don't understand
Cultural factors that trump technical benefits - Why customer expectations, existing Windows-based infrastructure, and team readiness matter more than the elegance of your Kubernetes solution
Practical strategies for incremental adoption - The importance of starting small, building in-house operational expertise, and ensuring management advocacy at all levels before attempting cloud-native transformations
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