Stairway to GitOps - Production Implementation at Morgan Stanley

Learn how to implement GitOps at enterprise scale in this conference talk that explores Morgan Stanley's production deployment of Kubernetes and GitOps technologies in a regulated, multinational financial services environment. Discover the architectural challenges and compliance requirements involved in scaling GitOps across thousands of engineers with varying levels of Kubernetes and cloud native expertise. Explore the platform architecture built on 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 how to leverage Buckets as source stores for Flux Kustomizations and enhance monitoring through custom Flux metrics integrated with Prometheus and Kube State Metrics, all visualized through Grafana dashboards. Gain insights into streamlining developer experience, reducing time to delivery, and upskilling engineering communities while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance standards in cloud native environments.