Cloud Native Scalability for Internal Developer Platforms

Learn about scalability challenges and solutions for building internal developer platforms (IDPs) using Kubernetes and cloud native technologies in this 30-minute conference talk from CNCF. Discover how Platform Engineering enables developers to focus on business-critical tasks by providing IDPs that automate routine operations, with Kubernetes serving as a popular foundation due to its scalability and flexibility. Explore the real-world challenges faced when Kubernetes, originally designed as a general workload orchestrator, is adapted for platform components requiring additional cloud native integrations and customizations that can create scalability bottlenecks. Examine the practical experience from LY Corporation's team in developing a Kubernetes-based, multi-tenant IDP managing over 140,000 pods and the specific scalability obstacles they encountered. Gain insights into common scalability bottlenecks in IDPs including observability pipelines and access control systems, while learning proven scaling strategies and solutions for addressing real-world scalability issues from a platform builder's perspective.