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Shared Nothing, Shared Everything: The Truth About Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy, with Molly Sheets

Shared Nothing, Shared Everything: The Truth About Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy, with Molly Sheets

Update: 2025-06-10
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Molly Sheets, Director of Engineering for Kubernetes at Zynga, discusses her team's approach to platform engineering. She explains why their initial one-cluster-per-team model became unsustainable and how they're transitioning to multi-tenant architectures.

You will learn:

  • Why slowing down deployments actually increases risk and how manual approval gates can make systems less resilient than faster, smaller deployments

  • The operational reality of cluster proliferation - why managing hundreds of clusters becomes unsustainable and when multi-tenancy becomes necessary

  • Practical multi-tenancy implementation strategies including resource quotas, priority classes, and namespace organization patterns that work in production

  • Better metrics for multi-tenant environments - why control plane uptime doesn't matter and how to build meaningful SLOs for distributed platform health

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This episode is sponsored by LearnKube — get started on your Kubernetes journey through comprehensive online, in-person or remote training.

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Shared Nothing, Shared Everything: The Truth About Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy, with Molly Sheets

Shared Nothing, Shared Everything: The Truth About Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy, with Molly Sheets