From Toil to Empowerment - Building Self-Service Ingress with GitOps

Learn how to transform manual ingress management into an automated, self-service platform using GitOps principles in this conference talk from SREcon25 EMEA. Discover the operational challenges of managing ingress across thousands of Kubernetes nodes and explore a technical solution that eliminates toil through declarative configuration. Examine how custom Kubernetes operators, combined with tools like cert-manager and external-dns, can automate load balancer provisioning, TLS certificate management, and DNS configuration. Understand the architectural decisions and implementation strategies that enable zero-touch ingress provisioning, empowering both platform engineers and service teams while reducing manual errors and operational overhead at scale.