From Toil to Empowerment: Building Self-Service Ingress with GitOps

Thursday, 9 October, 2025 - 13:5014:10

Jeswin Koshy Ninan, Workday, Inc.

This talk provides a technical overview of building a declarative, GitOps-driven platform for self-service public ingress at scale. We'll show how we transformed manual, error-prone ingress management (load balancers, TLS, DNS) into an automated, streamlined process. Discover the operational challenges of managing ingress across thousands of Kubernetes nodes, and how our solution, powered by custom Kubernetes operators and tools like cert-manager and external-dns, empowers both platform engineers and service teams with zero-touch ingress provisioning.

Jeswin Koshy Ninan is an experienced software engineer specializing in connectivity, traffic management, Kubernetes, and service mesh technologies.

BibTeX
@conference {311914,
author = {Jeswin Koshy Ninan},
title = {From Toil to Empowerment: Building {Self-Service} Ingress with {GitOps}},
year = {2025},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}

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