Scaling distributed systems requires shifting from manual management to automated orchestration – a transition Palo Alto Networks has mastered. Join this session to go inside the architectural choices powering their high-performance environments. We’ll explore Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot for a near-zero-ops experience and the technical implementation of horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA) to handle traffic without over-provisioning. We’ll also pull back the curtain on how they used Workload Identity Federation to replace static secrets. Leave with a real-world blueprint for composing scalable, secure, and lean systems.