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Building a cloud native platform from the ground up with Kairos, k0rdent, and bindy

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As we shared in our earlier post on FluxCD, RBC Capital Markets has been on a deliberate journey to modernize our Kubernetes platform. GitOps with FluxCD gave us a solid deployment foundation. But as our platform grew, today we operate over 50 clusters spanning on-premises VMware environments and multiple clouds, we hit a set of problems that no single off-the-shelf tool was designed to solve toge...
This case study from RBC Capital Markets offers a compelling example of how large, regulated enterprises can modernize infrastructure while meeting stringent compliance requirements. The strongest aspect of the narrative is its focus on solving real operational bottlenecks—configuration drift, manual provisioning, and DNS delays—through a cohesive, GitOps-driven architecture. The use of open-source tools like Kairos, Cluster API, and custom operators like bindy demonstrates a pragmatic approach ...