Service Discovery: A Sales Pitch to Myself

Internal presentation given on the origins of Service Discovery and the problems it solves in today's Cloud centric infrastructure setups.

PDF with presenter notes and links can be found here:
http://bit.ly/1KL1hjI

Transcript

1. $ervice Di$covery A Sales Pitch to Myself
2. 6 W's Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
3. Who
4. When http://bit.ly/1OUYM21
5. Where • In this room
6. Why http://bit.ly/1Ts3tUu
7. In the Beginning...
8. Cloud http://bit.ly/1Ts3wzy http://bit.ly/1Ts3xDx http://bit.ly/1Ts3BDn http://bit.ly/1Ts3EyV
9. And now...
10. http://bit.ly/1OUZoF1
11. And now...
12. Again, but with Cloud...
13. Internal DNS
14. Another Service
15. With Scale
16. What http://bit.ly/1Ts3OX4
17. Little Column A... 
 Little Column B Service Lookup • the ability to retrieve the location of an application Service Registration • ability to sign up on the central authority's list
18. How? http://bit.ly/1Ts3Q1c
19. Consul • Service Discovery • Health Checks • Key Value Store
20. Consul Production 10.0.0.0/16 Production - us-east-1c Private 10.0.0.0/19 Production - us-east-1d Private 10.0.64.0/19 Production - us-east-1e Private 10.0.128.0/19 Consul Cluster consul.seatgeek.com Consul Server 10.0.0.6 Consul Server 10.0.64.6 Consul Server 10.0.128.6 consul agent —client Service consul agent —server
21. Service Lookup • local HAProxy • Consul DNS
22. Service Registration • Definitions in cookbooks • Consul Client
23. http://bit.ly/1Ts3V4U
24. Demo!
25. What does this mean for non Ops?
26. NOTHING!
27. Well not quite... http://bit.ly/1Ts3XK2
28. http://bit.ly/1OV0u3v