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!
3. Anubhav Mishra @anubhavm
7. Talk • Microservices at Hootsuite • PaaS ◦ Kubernetes - Our microservices platform ◦ Deis Workflow - Our standalone application platform • Live Demo
8. What powers Hootsuite’s platform?
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
10. Before Microservices
15. Microservices
19. • Language • Framework • Code Organization • Libraries • Builds • Deploy • Infrastructure (PaaS) • Service Discovery • Routing • Logging • Monitoring • Health Checking • Highly Availability • Scaling
21. Can we make it so any team can ship a microservice by themselves into production in 5 minutes?
22. Automation = Success
23. Make the right thing to do easy
24. What did we do?
25. Microservices Delivery Pipeline • Generate Code • Create a Pipeline Using Code • On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
26. Microservices Delivery Pipeline • Generate Code • Create a Pipeline Using Code • On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
27. Generate Code
28. Generate Code
29. Generate Code =
30. Demo
31. Microservices Delivery Pipeline • Generate Code • Create a Pipeline Using Code • On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
32. Microservices Delivery Pipeline • Generate Code • Create a Pipeline Using Code • On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
33. Create a Pipeline Using Code
34. Create a Pipeline Using Code
36. that really was 5 minutes….
38. Microservices Delivery Pipeline • Generate Code • Create a Pipeline Using Code • On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
39. Microservices Delivery Pipeline • Generate Code • Create a Pipeline Using Code • On Demand Infrastructure to Run Microservices
41. Datacenter
42. Datacenter
43. Datacenter
44. Datacenter
45. On Demand Infrastructure
46. On Demand Infrastructure
47. kubectl apply -f production.yaml
48. kubectl apply -f production.yaml
50. Why Kubernetes? • On Demand Infrastructure • Service Discovery • No Downtime Deployments • Self Healing Applications • Routing
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
52. We have our own PaaS! YAY!
55. Awesome! Show’s over!
56. But…. • Standalone applications • Hackathons • Bots • Team Boards • Prototypes • Static Sites
57. I thought you already have a PaaS?
60. ?
63. Demo
64. Result
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
67. Thank You! Senior Developer - Production Operations and Delivery @anubhavm Anubhav Mishra