front matter
As Intuit embarked on the journey from on-premises to cloud-native, the journey itself presented an opportunity to reinvent our build and deployment process. Similar to many large enterprises, our old deployment process was data-center-centric with separate QA, Ops, and Infrastructure teams. Code could take weeks to get deployed, and developers had no access to infrastructure when there were production issues. Infrastructure issues could take a long time to resolve and required many groups’ collaboration.
As Marianna Tessel (Intuit CTO) and Jeff Brewer (Intuit SBSEG chief architect) decided to bet big on Kubernetes and Docker, we were fortunate to be the first team to fully migrate one of our production applications with Kubernetes and Docker. Along the way, we got to reinvent our CI/CD pipeline and adopt the GitOps process. Jesse and Alex created Argo CD (CNCF incubator project) to address enterprise needs for GitOps. Todd and his team created world-class cluster management tools so we can scale out to hundreds of clusters with ease.