For any organisation operating in a heavily regulated industry, such as banking, Kubernetes adoption comes with some heavy lifting.
Can cluster use be governed? Are the clusters compliant with security mandates? Can applications be managed effectively as they are scaled out?
Financial services giant Morgan Stanley has traversed this journey, and now manages 500 Kubernetes clusters running 100,000 containers across 2,000 nodes.
“It was real important for us to provide a common workflow at the application layer,” said Morgan Stanley Platform Engineer Tiffany Wang, who, along with Morgan Stanley Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering Manager Simon Bourassa, shared the company’s journey in a talk at the recent FluxCon North America conference.
For Morgan Stanley, Kubernetes has the capacity and flexibility to run multiple services at scale. But it was an additional open source cloud native tool, Flux, that allowed the investment firm to streamline its deployment process into a full-fledged automated GitOps practice.
