The system that runs Norway's welfare payments 🇳🇴

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

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 – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Welcome
(01:03) - Sponsor: Sourcegraph
(04:07) - Intro
(08:27) - NAV vs NAIS
(10:10) - What's good about having NAIS?
(14:13) - Why K8s?
(16:17) - Kollide, Unleash, how close are you?
(17:50) - Favorite NAIS tool
(20:29) - Kyverno
(23:48) - Sponsor: Raygun
(25:46) - How do you secure the data?
(27:02) - Cilium and eBPF?
(30:51) - How long has Audun been in tech?
(33:59) - Challenges from Covid
(40:31) - Success story
(42:58) - How big is NAIS?
(45:51) - GCP in practice
(47:03) - Missing from GCP
(49:11) - Migrating the older services
(51:33) - A good day for Audun
(53:56) - The SLSA model
(55:05) - Anything bigger?
(56:21) - Inspiration for NAV
(58:21) - Go listen to this talk
(59:37) - Wrap up
(1:01:08) - Outro