Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government

Explore the journey of building and operating one of Norway's largest Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions for government agencies in this 47-minute conference talk from the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit. Learn how the Norwegian Government's largest administration has successfully utilized Kubernetes for over seven years, evolving from quarterly releases to thousands of continuous weekly deployments across their cloud-native application fleet. Discover the challenges and solutions involved in scaling their successful NAV platform model to serve over 100 product teams and their ambitious goal of offering platform services to other government agencies. Gain insights into how government technology can embrace modern DevOps practices, moving beyond traditional approaches to enable agencies to focus on building innovative citizen services rather than reinventing infrastructure platforms. Understand the technical and organizational strategies that enabled this transformation from early Kubernetes adoption when StatefulSets were in alpha and RBAC was in beta to a mature, fully managed platform serving multiple government entities.