Cloud Native Story CA #1 by Jason Hadi @Ecobee

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1. ecobee’s CNCF story! May 11, 2020 Canadian Cloud Native Stories
2. 2 Jason Hadi • At ecobee for ~2 years • SRE on the Home Monitoring team • Previously at Thomson Reuters, RL Datix • Big fan of scotch!
3. 3 ecobee is a connected home company
4. 4 ecobee is a connected home company
5. 5 ecobee is a connected home company Over a million connected thermostats heating and cooling homes!
6. 6 ecobee is a connected home company Over a million connected thermostats heating and cooling homes!
9. 9 ❤
10. 10 ❤
11. 11 We weren’t always cloud first…
12. 12 We weren’t always cloud first…
13. 13 SPOILER: We didn’t leave our colo.
14. 14 • Gave us the confidence to maintain a Kubernetes cluster on-premise • Easy to bring in new nodes means we could slowly decrease capacity on the legacy setup
16. 16 Many of our other products are in the cloud on GKE!
17. 17 Many of our other products are in the cloud on GKE! ecobee product teams are autonomous including infrastructure (think squad model)
19. 19 • Still mostly helm v2 + tillerless • Lots of plugins: • helmfile, helm-gcs, helm-diff • So many helm charts! • nginx-ingress, prometheus- operator, loki, cert-manager…
20. 20 + • Protobuf already used by ecobee for Google Pub/sub messaging • Well-defined contract for integration between teams (works well for squad model)
21. 21 Still early in our Cloud journey… Say Hi! Jason Hadi Site Reliability Engineer • jason.h@ecobee.com • /in/jasonhadi/ • @jasonhadi (k8scanada slack)