Kubernetes
Past Presentations
Better DevEx at Netflix: Polyglot and Containers
A quick scan through Netflix Github repository reveals how deeply invested Netflix engineering has been on Java and the cloud. While both of these remain true, the story has gotten increasingly more complex over time. Growth and various business drivers have propelled Netflix beyond a single...
Peloton - Uber's Webscale Unified Scheduler on Mesos & Kubernetes
With the increasing scale of Uber’s business, efficient use of cluster resources is important to reduce the cost per trip. As we have learned when operating Mesos clusters in production, it is a challenge to overcommit resources for latency-sensitive services due to their large spread of...
Alibaba Container Platform Infrastructure - a Kubernetes Approach
As one of the biggest data companies in the world, Alibaba provides thousands of on-line/off-line services to various customers to support their business. Most of the Alibaba applications are fully containerized and run on top of Alibaba container platform which manages huge number of...
How to Evolve Kubernetes Resource Management Model
Built with Linux container and cgroup technologies, Kubernetes provides an efficient framework for deploying different kinds of application workloads across multiple machines and compute platforms. Over the past five years, Kubernetes has evolved to support increasingly complex and diverse...
Securing a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Cluster
Organizations are rapidly adopting containers and Kubernetes to more easily develop and manage the applications that drive business value. However, to get the biggest bang for your Kubernetes buck, you need strong multi-tenancy with security built-in at all layers of the software stack. You need...
Managing Kubernetes with Istio
Developers are moving away from large monolithic apps in favor of small, focused microservices that speed up implementation and improve resiliency. Microservices and containers changed application design and deployment patterns, but along with them brought challenges like service discovery,...
Interviews
Better DevEx at Netflix: Polyglot and Containers
Read Full InterviewAlibaba Container Platform Infrastructure - a Kubernetes Approach
What is the focus of your work today?
I'm currently working on Alibaba Container Platform team, focusing on the integration of the Kubernetes including extending it for our workloads and needs in terms of creating new controllers making the Scheduler more scalable and providing native Kubernetes API to the upper pass layer demanded by other clients in the Alibaba cloud...
Read Full InterviewHow to Evolve Kubernetes Resource Management Model
What is the focus of your work today?
I'm mostly working on two major things: a) Improve Kubernetes reliability in terms of resource isolation. We want to provide better isolation between containers by hardening the resource model. b) We also attempt to see how we can better support other non-primary resources such as GPU.
Read Full InterviewChick-Fil-A: Milking the Most Out of 1000's of K8s Clusters
How does the Kubernetes implementation at Chick-Fil-A differ from more common approaches to Kubernetes deployments?
Brian: Most of the people that we see in the industry that are running Kubernetes clusters at any kind of scale (or really running and big container platforms) generally have a cloud-based infrastructure that they run in AWS (or Google). Most companies have a single or a few sizeable Kubernetes clusters with a large number of nodes (on...
Read Full InterviewForced Evolution: Shopify's Journey to Kubernetes
What’s the focus of your work today?
I'm on the cloud platform team. Mostly I'm working with Kubernetes. The main goal is to make sure our platform for developers is working. That may mean that I'm debugging some issues with Docker or Kubernetes, or I’m writing Golang to automate the platform. Today, I'm actually working on improving our cluster life cycle, we are...
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