Product Management Insight

Adobe's GitOps-based Flex CI/CD platform saw rapid adoption in 2023 leading to stability and scalability challenges. Learn how we're tackling these challenges and ensuring continued adoption. Released in 2022, Adobe Flex CI/CD gained momentum in early 2023. However, rapid adoption revealed challenges in Argo CD and core Kubernetes components, necessitating regulated adoption. Explore our efforts in collaboratively addressing scalability issues, stabilizing Argo CD (10k+ apps), and solidifying the Kubernetes stack for an imminent 5X scale. We'll discuss strategies for achieving widespread adoption, identifying and addressing obstacles alongside client teams, and prioritizing developer-friendly features. Lastly, we'll explore our approach to scaling support by harnessing AI capabilities to manage the escalating workload from client teams, fostering collaborative efforts in the process.

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Adobe began its Cloud-Native journey back in 2015 and has since then expanded to over 200 multi-tenant clusters deployed across multiple regions and geographies. We have an average of >3 million containers with over 200 production deployments each day. All this has been made possible with Adobe's Cloud Platform called Ethos which provides high resiliency, reliability, and robust CI/CD capabilities to Adobe product teams. We are now expanding this platform into an Adobe-wide Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that aims to provide a seamless experience incorporating service creation, deployment, and management to over 5000 developers. The IDP will integrate and provide key capabilities across security, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, diagnostics and GitOps-based CI/CD tooling using Argo. Adobe is also going through a massive project of modernizing its K8s cluster fleet which will lead to greater resiliency and considerable cost savings each year.