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Ian Juma
December 04, 2018
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Building Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Successful African Ventures - Africa's Talking
Building Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Successful African Ventures - AT
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Transcript
Building Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Successful African Ventures
ANTHONY KIPLIMO Developer Success, Africa’s Talking Developers for Impact IAN
JUMA Software Engineer, Africa’s Talking The Architecture of Impact
We are a Pan African Platform as a Service company
that democratizes access to communication and payments infrastructure to developers across the continent Who is Africa’s Talking?
All for the African Developer to bring their ideas to
life with ease
Developers are powerful in their organisations and their communities. Why
Developers are important to us
An integral part to the developer’s journey
Developers unlock wealth not only for themselves but their communities
•Student at Dedan Kimathi University •Dev Community Leader •Part of
the AT Developer Referral program • Started his own startup this year Brian Okinyi
- Training - Developer Referral Program How we are changing
developers’ lives?
Impact for Businesses
23,000+ Developers 5000+ Businesses Millions of people everyday 2 1
3 The numbers to date
We see a tiered model of impact
Developers Businesses Community Four Tiered Model of Impact
These businesses reach millions of people everyday. All this powered
by infrastructure built on Docker
The Architecture for Impact
- Adopting docker - Building a cloud-native platform - Transitioning
from a traditional ops team The Grand Challenge
Before docker - Make a feature, PR - Build an
artifact - (sbt) - Push artifact to a server - scp
What could go wrong?
Configuration management systems are hard!
Docker - a configuration management system for everyone
Adopting docker… sprinkle some containers they said
What could go wrong? - Assumed complexity - Dockerfiles and
developer workflows - Old unmaintained images - Operational knowledge - Standard - you have to create a good practices guide
... Image size - “chown -R daemon:daemon duplicates layers” #30110
Security - basic principles, root users, selinux Writing acceptable dockerfiles Using latest tag - not tagging at all A periodic daemon hang #33710 fixed
... Containers will not fix your broken culture Bridget Kromhout
CI Build QA Staging Production An easier way?
Now… TEST STAGING • Signature verification • Native encryption Scanning
Signing Automated Policies Developer PRODUCTION
Node Worker Node Worker Node Worker swarm mode cluster Node
Worker Node Worker Data Team Using mesos Scala Team using K8s NodeJS Team Using K8s Ops Team Node Worker
GitOps
- Observability - Developers understand GIT - An option to
lock a deployment - Deployment to production is manual
copyright flux
Opportunities - CI/CD - Operationalizing Docker and container orchestration
Closing Thoughts
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