Cloudy With a Chance of Kubernetes: Going From One To Three... Laurent Bernaille & Maxime Visonneau
Laurent Bernaille, Maxime Visonneau
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
This talk, "Cloudy With a Chance of Kubernetes: Going From One To Three...", presented by Laurent Bernaille and Maxime Visonneau from DataDog, delves into the intricate journey of migrating and operating a massive-scale observability platform across not one, but three major public cloud providers: AWS, GCP, and Azure. The speakers share DataDog's evolution from a single-cloud, VM-centric infrastructure to a multi-cloud, Kubernetes-native architecture, highlighting the strategic decisions, technical challenges, and innovative solutions developed along the way. The core theme revolves around leveraging Kubernetes as a powerful abstraction layer to manage infrastructure and application deployments consistently across diverse cloud environments.
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This talk from DataDog engineers offers a candid and deeply technical look into operating Kubernetes at extreme scale across multiple cloud providers. It highlights the "leaky abstractions" of cloud platforms and presents DataDog's innovative solutions, such as self-hosting Kubernetes control planes as pods and building a custom software delivery platform. The session provides invaluable, hard-won insights for platform engineers and SREs grappling with multi-cloud strategies, demonstrating real-world engineering excellence rather than marketing fluff.