Helm Summit 2019

Even small projects can be effectively developed and operated on Kubernetes. Jenkins-X provides an opinionated framework to set up and run a development environment for the team. By means of Helm-based GitOps even production can be managed by a small team in a secure way with little overhead.
DukeCon (http://dukecon.org) is an open source project to organize developer conferences, e.g., Javaland. The project is driven by a small group of volunteers in their spare time, with little support by full time operators of the respective conference.
The talk shows how the project was migrated from VMs with Docker to k8s. Operations tasks were simplified and streamlined. Development took advantage of excellent tools and more flexibility. Quality was improved by shorter feedback loops. Continuous deployment became feasible through fully automated testing and rollout.