20 Mar, 2025

Choreo Bridging Kubernetes and Enterprise Development

Kubernetes provides a robust foundation for cloud-native applications, but enterprise adoption requires more than just Kubernetes itself. To fully meet enterprise demands, organizations must build a platform on top of Kubernetes, integrating multiple CNCF projects for CI/CD, security, observability, scaling, automation, and traffic control. However, this approach introduces significant complexity, shifting focus away from core business objectives and burdening development teams with infrastructure challenges.

This talk will explore how Choreo, an internal developer platform (IDP) built on Kubernetes, simplifies enterprise development by abstracting complexity and seamlessly integrating essential CNCF projects. With built-in scalability, resiliency, Zero-Trust security, deep observability, and automation, Choreo eliminates the need for enterprises to manually piece together Kubernetes and its ecosystem. By reducing infrastructure burden and optimizing developer workflows, Choreo accelerates software delivery, enhances security, and empowers teams to innovate faster—making cloud-native application development seamless, secure, and efficient.

Speaker

Lakmal Warusawithana

Lakmal Warusawithana

Vice President & Distinguished Engineer

WSO2

Lakmal Warusawithana is the VP and Distinguished Engineer at WSO2, with extensive experience as a Cloud Architect and Platform Engineer specializing in cloud-native technologies. With a proven track record in designing and implementing scalable platforms, he has been instrumental in simplifying enterprise development through modern infrastructure solutions. Previously, he served as Vice President of the Apache Stratos PaaS Project and co-founded thinkCube in 2005, where he led engineering, scalability, and service delivery for Collaborative Cloud Computing products tailored to telecom operators. A seasoned speaker, Lakmal has shared his expertise at major industry events, including ApacheCon, CloudOpen, QCon, JaxLondon, Cloud Expo, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and WSO2Con.