From Creepers to Clusters: Evolving Minecraft Into a Cloud Native... Jaden Walderich & Alex Mizerak

This talk covers the transformation of the CubeCraft Minecraft server into a modern cloud native game platform, presented by Jaden Walderich and Alex Mizerak from Ziax Ltd. The speakers discuss the challenges of evolving a monolithic architecture, previously reliant on legacy jobs and scripts, into a scalable environment using OKD and Quarkus. They delve into orchestrating various workloads and applications while focusing on creating a developer-friendly platform that goes beyond a single game. Attendees will gain insights into platform engineering and learn how these practices can apply to modernizing complex systems in Kubernetes, offering valuable lessons for various industries.