In this talk, we are going to tell you the story of building the Connection Platform (CoPa). This is an endeavor undertaken at Generali Switzerland over the course of the last year, in a collaboration with Innovation Process Technology. The goal was to design a general purpose, state of the art integration platform, which covers all integration needs of the enterprise. The central data distribution and integration layer are powered by Confluent Kafka. We will throw a spotlight on three different aspects of this platform that, all in their own right, are essential for agile data integration. First of all, the platform is hosted on the container platform Redhat Openshift. Everything is set up in flexible Docker containers. Automated pipelines are used to build, provision and deploy everything on the platform from infrastructure to data pipeline