Cloud Modernization

Banks have more engineers than ever, but those engineers spend more time on infrastructure than on features. A developer at a typical bank waits days for infrastructure provisioning, weeks for security approvals, and months for compliance reviews. Platform engineering is the discipline of converting that wait time into self-service. For banks, platform engineering has an additional constraint: regulatory compliance. Every infrastructure decision must satisfy audit requirements. An internal developer platform that makes engineers productive while maintaining compliance is the difference between scaling engineering velocity and drowning in operational overhead. ...

By mid-2022, most banks had completed Kubernetes proof-of-concept deployments. The question was no longer “can we run Kubernetes?” but “how do we run Kubernetes in production while satisfying regulators?” The gap between POC and production is where most Kubernetes deployments fail — not because of technical limitations, but because of operational and compliance gaps. We have deployed production Kubernetes clusters at tier-one banks that satisfy regulatory audit requirements. The architecture is fundamentally different from Kubernetes at a SaaS startup. Here is what production Kubernetes looks like in a regulated environment. ...