Developing Eventbrite with Docker

A talk I gave at the SF Django meetup for January 2016

Transcript

1. Andrew Godwin @andrewgodwin
   Docker
   DEVELOPING
   Eventbrite
   WITH
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3. Eventbrite is a monolith
   

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4. Eventbrite is a monolith
   Dev env is a monolith
   

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5. One Vagrant box
   2 - 12 hour rebuild time
   

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6. Services! Separate codebases!
   ...way more requirements
   

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7. Also, I'm running a VM and
   this annoys me a lot.
   

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8. The Docker project begins!
   

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10. Eventbrite is a lot more complex.
    

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13. Over 120 containers.
    

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14. Problems with core Docker
    

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15. SSH Keys
    One per engineer, no common ones
    

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16. Garbage collection
    A *clean* image set for us is over 1000 image layers
    

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17. Profiles
    You don't want to run it all
    

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18. Centralised Dockerfile loc'n
    Some containers use multiple repos
    

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19. Rebuilding still takes a while!
    

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20. ...but we can make servers do it
    

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21. Future Plans
    Docker image mirrors in each office
    Better network management for containers
    Shared/remote containers to lower RAM use
    Parallel container startup
    

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22. Thanks.
    Andrew Godwin
    @andrewgodwin
    

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