The system that runs Norway's welfare payments 🇳🇴

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

In today’s episode we have the pleasure of Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer at NAV.no, Norway’s Labour & Welfare Administration. We will be talking about NAIS.io, the application platform that runs on-prem, as well as on the public cloud.

Imagine hundreds of developers shipping on an average day 300 changes into a system which processes $100,000,000 worth of transactions on a quiet week. If you think this is hard, consider the context: a government institution which must comply with all laws & regulations.

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Featuring:

• Audun Fauchald Strand – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• NAIS.io - Application platform and DevEx toolbox for teams digitalizing NAV.no
• 🗂 docs.nais.io - references, step-by-step guides & some good YAML
• 📊 NAV.no deployment stats, 2009 - 2022
• 🗺 NAV Teknisk retning (technical direction)
• Being NAIS at a distance - How we work in a hybrid world
• Do we need an internal technology platform? - The case for platforms at NAV
• Changing Service Mesh - How we swapped Istio with Linkerd with hardly any downtime
• NAIS @ GitHub
• 📃 How to Optimize for Fast Flow Using Alignment and Autonomy
• 🐦 Do you know what’s cool? Keeping your #kubernetes clusters secure.

NAV.no average weekly service deployments, 2009 - 2022

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פרקים

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:01:03)

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3. Intro (00:04:07)

4. NAV vs NAIS (00:08:27)

5. What's good about having NAIS? (00:10:10)

6. Why K8s? (00:14:13)

7. Kollide, Unleash, how close are you? (00:16:17)

8. Favorite NAIS tool (00:17:50)

9. Kyverno (00:20:29)

10. Sponsor: Raygun (00:23:48)

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11. How do you secure the data? (00:25:46)

12. Cilium and eBPF? (00:27:02)

13. How long has Audun been in tech? (00:30:51)

14. Challenges from Covid (00:33:59)

15. Success story (00:40:31)

16. How big is NAIS? (00:42:58)

17. GCP in practice (00:45:51)

18. Missing from GCP (00:47:03)

19. Migrating the older services (00:49:11)

20. A good day for Audun (00:51:33)

21. The SLSA model (00:53:56)

22. Anything bigger? (00:55:05)

23. Inspiration for NAV (00:56:21)

24. Go listen to this talk (00:58:21)

25. Wrap up (00:59:37)

26. Outro (01:01:08)