In this episode, Sylvain and Bart talk with Andy Grabner, a long-time DevOps engineer at Dynatrace and a key contributor to Keptn, an open-source control plane designed to streamline cloud-native application delivery and operations. Written in Go and TypeScript, Keptn simplifies continuous delivery, progressive deployment, and automated remediation through its event-driven architecture, ensuring reliability and efficiency across various DevOps tools. With more than 2,000 GitHub stars and integrations with major observability platforms, Keptn has become a vital tool in the cloud-native ecosystem. Keptn is a CNCF incubating project.

What you will learn in this episode

• The Core Problem Keptn Solves: How Keptn enhances Kubernetes deployments with observability and automated validation of service-level objectives (SLOs).
• Keptn’s Standout Feature: Its pipeline observability feature provides traceability for each step of the deployment process.
• Real-World Use Cases: Examples from a European bank and a large U.S. telco illustrate how Keptn automates release validation across hundreds of clusters.
• Integration with CNCF Tools: How Keptn pulls metrics from tools like Prometheus and Datadog to support Kubernetes scaling decisions and progressive rollouts.
• Path to Contribution: Keptn welcomes contributors, especially for new metric provider integrations, with guidance available via CNCF Slack.