Open Source in Finance Forum London 2025

As financial institutions accelerate their digital transformation, developers need robust tools that offer flexibility, scalability, and seamless application deployment. Solutions such as Cloud Foundry have provided a simple way to deploy applications in the cloud. However, with the growing demand for more customisation in the deployment pipeline, modern platforms like Kratix, an open-source framework, can help bring new possibilities.
In this talk, we will demonstrate how Kratix can be used to replicate—and surpass—the experience of deploying applications to the cloud. We’ll explore how Kratix, combined with Shipwright, enables developers to build and deploy applications from source or as pre-built container images with ease. You'll learn how Shipwright supports a variety of build strategies and tools, offering the flexibility to use custom inputs while maintaining a streamlined workflow.
We’ll walk through practical use cases and demos, showing how Kratix and Shipwright can empower developers to achieve frictionless deployment pipelines, optimise developer experience, and simplify DevOps workflows in an open-source, cloud-native environment.