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TITLE:From Duct Tape to Declarative: Playtika's Platform Overhaul at Unicorn Scale
DTSTART:20251211T122000Z
DTEND:20251211T124000Z
SUMMARY:From Duct Tape to Declarative: Playtika's Platform Overhaul at Unicorn Scale
DESCRIPTION:Success is a double-edged sword. As the gaming industry boomed, Playtika’s platform couldn't keep pace. What was once manageable became chaos: Ansible scripts, imperative Jenkins pipelines, a sprawl of internal portals & everyone doing automation their own way.Environments took days to spin up.Onboarding was guesswork.DON'T touch the fragile parts.This talk unpacks how Playtika modernized that mess into a CNCF-driven platform stack. Learn how they moved to declarative K8s clusters with ClusterAPI, GitOps deployments with FluxCD, and infra managed via Crossplane. Internal tools were replaced with a single Backstage-powered portal, delivering developer efficiency at scale.But the real shift wasn’t just technical—it was cultural.Ticket ops became self-service. Teams aligned. Provisioning dropped from days to under an hour all with OSS.If your platform feels like it’s held together with duct tape and hope, this talk shows how standardization isn’t boring—it’s what scales. 
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