This document summarizes Zalando's approach to developer experience and Kubernetes operations. Key aspects include:
- Developers build and deploy applications using Kubernetes as the primary interface. They are responsible for operations through an "on-call" model.
- Tools and platforms are provided to automate common tasks like builds, deployments, monitoring and scaling. These aim to improve developer productivity while ensuring correctness, security and cost efficiency.
- Open source projects developed by Zalando help provision and manage Kubernetes clusters and applications at large scale, with over 1000 developers and 200 teams using Kubernetes internally.