How can you harness the power of entrepreneurs in your company? Give them a PaaS!

At Hootsuite we have been seeing hyper growth since 2013 with over 12 million users now. In order to support this growth we are also building a great engineering team, but that isn't enough. We had to work extra hard to make software delivery easy and fast for our developers. We ship 15+ releases a day on our main dashboard application and we do more releases on our 20+ microservices. We also created our own internal PaaS to support experiments and rapid prototyping to deliver customer value quickly.

In this talk we will cover how at Hootsuite we can deliver a microservice into production in under 5 minutes. How we leverage Kubernetes and Deis to give our developers the best experience when it comes to delivering services and features to production. Why are platforms like Kubernetes are important for a company's technology growth and give back the power to developers to create amazing technology really easily.

For the demo portion of the session we will generate an example Hootsuite service and watch it deploy to production environment in under 5 minutes. We will cover the following:

Kubernetes as a microservices platform
Deis Workflow on top of Kubernetes for a Heroku like experience

Transcript

1. Senior Developer - Production Operations and Delivery
   @anubhavm
   How can you harness the
   power of entrepreneurs in
   your company?
   Anubhav Mishra
   Give them a PaaS!
   

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3. Anubhav Mishra
   @anubhavm
   

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7. Talk
   ● Microservices at Hootsuite
   ● PaaS
   ○ Kubernetes - Our microservices platform
   ○ Deis Workflow - Our standalone application
   platform
   ● Live Demo
   

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8. What powers Hootsuite’s
   platform?
   

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9. Numbers
   ● 100+ developers
   ● 1 PHP monolith
   ● 30+ microservices
   ● 2 cluster schedulers
   ● 1500+ servers
   ● ~15+ releases per day
   ● 10000 requests per second
   ● 5 million messages per day
   ● AWS as the cloud provider
   

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10. Before Microservices
    

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15. Microservices
    

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19. ● Language
    ● Framework
    ● Code Organization
    ● Libraries
    ● Builds
    ● Deploy
    ● Infrastructure (PaaS)
    ● Service Discovery
    ● Routing
    ● Logging
    ● Monitoring
    ● Health Checking
    ● Highly Availability
    ● Scaling
    

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21. Can we make it so any team
    can ship a microservice by
    themselves into production in
    5 minutes?
    

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22. Automation = Success
    

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23. Make the right thing to do easy
    

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24. What did we do?
    

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25. Microservices Delivery Pipeline
    ● Generate Code
    ● Create a Pipeline Using Code
    ● On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
    

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26. Microservices Delivery Pipeline
    ● Generate Code
    ● Create a Pipeline Using Code
    ● On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
    

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27. Generate Code
    

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28. Generate Code
    

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29. Generate Code
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30. Demo
    

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31. Microservices Delivery Pipeline
    ● Generate Code
    ● Create a Pipeline Using Code
    ● On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
    

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32. Microservices Delivery Pipeline
    ● Generate Code
    ● Create a Pipeline Using Code
    ● On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
    

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33. Create a Pipeline Using Code
    

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34. Create a Pipeline Using Code
    

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36. that really was 5 minutes….
    

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38. Microservices Delivery Pipeline
    ● Generate Code
    ● Create a Pipeline Using Code
    ● On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
    

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39. Microservices Delivery Pipeline
    ● Generate Code
    ● Create a Pipeline Using Code
    ● On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
    

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41. Datacenter
    

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42. Datacenter
    

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43. Datacenter
    

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44. Datacenter
    

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45. On Demand Infrastructure
    

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46. On Demand Infrastructure
    

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47. kubectl apply -f production.yaml
    

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48. kubectl apply -f production.yaml
    

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50. Why Kubernetes?
    ● On Demand Infrastructure
    ● Service Discovery
    ● No Downtime Deployments
    ● Self Healing Applications
    ● Routing
    

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51. The majority of people managing
    infrastructure just want a PaaS.
    The only requirement:
    Is has to be built by them.
    - Kelsey Hightower
    Developer Advocate - Google
    

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52. We have our own PaaS! YAY!
    

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55. Awesome! Show’s over!
    

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56. But….
    ● Standalone applications
    ● Hackathons
    ● Bots
    ● Team Boards
    ● Prototypes
    ● Static Sites
    

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57. I thought you already have a PaaS?
    

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60. ?
    

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63. Demo
    

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64. Result
    

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66. ● Kubernetes - https://kubernetes.io
    ● Deis Workflow - https://deis.com/docs/workflow/
    ● slide deck -
    https://speakerdeck.com/anubhavmishra/taming-terraform-work
    flow-using-terraform-modules-and-github
    Links
    

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67. Thank You!
    Senior Developer - Production Operations and Delivery
    @anubhavm
    Anubhav Mishra
    

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