How to build your own cloud platform and (not) shoot yourself in the foot
Hosting and infrastructure operations work differently today than they did 10 or 20 years ago. New demands in scalability, automation and technological flexibility necessitate new solutions. In this talk, I will give insights into the internal architecture of the mittwald cloud platform, and explain how we leveraged modern cloud technologies like OpenStack and Kubernetes to build a platform to not only support traditional LAMP environments, but also modern architectures like Headless CMS and new deployment strategies like containerized deployments.
I will also talk about the challenges that we faced (and maybe underestimated) in both development and operations, and which strategies we developed to overcome them.