Stairway to GitOps - Production Implementation at Morgan Stanley

Learn how to implement GitOps at enterprise scale in a regulated financial services environment through this conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Discover the architectural challenges and compliance requirements that arise when adopting Kubernetes and GitOps technologies across thousands of engineers with varying levels of cloud native expertise. Explore how Morgan Stanley built a comprehensive platform powered by Flux for application workloads that enables automated tenant GitOps workflow onboarding, multi-cloud deployment capabilities, and enforcement of least privileges and multi-tenancy principles. Understand practical implementation strategies for upskilling engineering communities, streamlining developer experience, and reducing time to delivery in large multinational enterprise environments. Examine how to leverage Buckets as source stores for Flux Kustomizations and enhance Flux custom metrics integration with Prometheus and Kube State Metrics for comprehensive monitoring through Grafana dashboards. Gain insights into overcoming the unique challenges of deploying cloud native technologies in production environments where regulatory compliance and security are paramount concerns.