kubernetes at immmr - coreos fest 2016

Kubernetes at immmrOur journey

About me

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▪ ops, infrastructure and security lead at immmr GmbH

▪ background in software architecture (SOA), building private cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code

▪ strong interest in distributed systems ▪ father of two ▪ esports fan

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About immmr

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▪ May 2015 in Silicon Valley ▪ initial idea to use it for Telco requirements of distributed (edge) container clusters ▪ focus on networking, alpha user of project calico <3 ▪ Kubernetes WS from Google

Kubernetes first contact

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▪ joined project as ops lead ▪ ongoing project "microservice-based" ▪microservices? Yes every service even has its own database, isn't that cool? ▪ Uh, and how do we scale?

From development to production

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▪ almost, lets go down to 2 databases please --> CouchDB and Postgres ▪ Scaling for free (almost) ▪ service discovery via DNS ▪many useful features: canary deployment, healing, secrets, configmaps

Kubernetes to the rescue

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▪ client driven updates: resolved, deployments 4tw :)

▪ (external) load balancing on AWS - using terraform automated ELBs; ingress in the future

▪ persistence layer: currently to afraid to run our "normal" databases in cluster

▪ transforming configs from chef to kubernetes

The gaps

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▪ auto-scaling ▪ namespaces: cluster-in-cluster ▪ dynamic storage allocation via EBS ▪ automated ELB setup or ingress

The future

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▪ jannis@immmr.com ▪ Twitter: @jannis_r

Questions

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