My pipelines from GitLab Commit to ArgoCD got beaten by FTP, with David Pech

In this episode of KubeFM, David Pech returns to discuss a real-world DevOps scenario where a complex GitLab CI-CD pipeline integrated with Argo CD was outperformed by a simple FTP deployment. David shares his cloud-native journey, starting with AWS Lambdas and evolving through Docker Swarm to Kubernetes, eventually earning all CNCF certifications. The conversation delves into a merger situation where Company A, using legacy PHP development and FTP deployments, clashed with Company B's modern cloud-native principles. Despite creating a Kubernetes-based solution, it faced resistance due to developer reluctance, management priorities, and customer limitations. David emphasizes that cultural and organizational factors, rather than technical superiority, dictated the outcome, and he advises platform engineers to ensure team readiness, management support, and customer alignment before introducing Kubernetes and cloud-native practices.