A Journey To Modernizing a Regulated Cloud Control Plane - Pranita Praveen & Steven Borrelli
Pranita Praveen, Steven Borrelli
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
This talk, presented by Pranita Praveen of Macquarie Group and Steven Borrelli of Upbound, details Macquarie's ambitious journey to modernize its cloud control plane within a highly regulated financial services environment. Facing challenges with a decade-old, cumbersome infrastructure pipeline across a multicloud estate (AWS, GCP, Azure), Macquarie sought to drastically improve developer experience and accelerate the enablement of new cloud services. The presentation outlines their strategic adoption of a Kubernetes-native, universal control plane leveraging **Crossplane**, **Argo CD**, and **GitOps** principles.
AI review
This talk presents a compelling, technically deep case study of Macquarie Group's successful modernization of a multicloud control plane in a highly regulated financial environment. By leveraging Crossplane, Argo CD, and custom Golang APIs for brownfield integration, they've achieved a unified, GitOps-driven infrastructure management system. The "bot of bots" workflow, providing shift-left security and compliance feedback within pull requests, is a particularly clever and impactful innovation, drastically improving developer experience and strengthening defensive posture against…