Worldpay's Platform as a Product: Revolutionizing development with Red Hat OpenShift

Worldpay's Platform as a Product: Revolutionizing development with Red Hat OpenShift GKOP: More than just OpenShift The pillars of a compelling platform product API-driven self-service and automated validation Cultivating a great developer experience Red Hat Learning Subscription | Product Trial About the author Alex Handy More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Worldpay has fundamentally transformed its development processes by leveraging Red Hat OpenShift as the foundation for its internal developer platform, dubbed the Global Kubernetes Orchestration Platform (GKOP). This strategic shift has enabled Worldpay to empower its development teams with self-service capabilities, fostering a culture of collaboration and efficiency. Launched in 2020, GKOP is an enterprise platform built on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a fully managed turnkey application platform. It is PCI DSS compliant and manages a fleet of 28 clusters across multiple regions. Worldpay views GKOP as a product, not just a platform. Things must run smoothly and reliably, so the GKOP team has built extensive automation around it. “GKOP is our product, because it's so much more than just OpenShift. We built a lot of automation around it so the backbone of GKOP is the orchestration and configuration management. We asked ourselves ‘How do we do it? How do we run a fleet of clusters and manage them at scale?" asked Bernd Malmqvist, director of platform engineering at Worldpay. “Our cluster management basically is rendering the configuration [which is then] applied to downstream clusters… In disaster recovery exercises, we delete a region and rebuild it from scratch, from start to finish, within one and a half hours. We achieve this because the configuration is pre-rendered. When a cluster comes back online, configuration can be instantly applied.