As companies increasingly move to the cloud, they encounter common challenges such as security concerns, compliance requirements, raising costs, and operational complexity. This presentation explores how to deliver a SaaS experience on-premises using cloud-native tools to build a fully managed service on customers‘ infrastructure. We’ll delve into leveraging tools like kcp, Kubernetes operators, Harbor, and more, along with new emerging tools.
The session will cover the technical intricacies, benefits, and challenges of three delivery models: fully managed (SaaS), hybrid (self-managed on rails), and packaged open source. We will offer practical insights and real-world examples throughout the discussion.
George Hantzaras is a distributed systems expert and a hands-on engineering leader. He is a Director of Engineering at MongoDB, focusing on implementing cloud native technologies at enterprise scale. He is an Ambassador of the Data on Kubernetes community and the author of The Platform Engineering Playbook, by Packt. Most recently, he has been a speaker at global events like Kubecon, OpenSource Summit, Hashiconf, LeadDev, SaaStr, and more.