CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

Lemonade is one of the world's top-rated insurance companies, succeeding in a tough industry with well-established players.

As Lemonade scaled its engineering organization, the team adopted a highly distributed, services-oriented architecture to support rapid growth. While Kubernetes played a central role in this evolution, the shift also brought challenges—most notably, the disparity between Docker Compose-based local development environments and Kubernetes-based production environments.

In this session, Lemonade engineers will share their hands-on experience building and scaling t-env, Lemonade's internal platform powered by Kubernetes, Okteto, Grafana, and other open-source technologies. Attendees will learn why Lemonade invested in a platform, key lessons from addressing real-world challenges, the benefits of running both development and production environments in Kubernetes, and how a small platform team achieves all this while keeping maintenance costs surprisingly low.