Transforming The Government

This talk documents the UK Home Office's cloud-native journey, changing how we did devops forever!

At the UK Home Office, we run Kubernetes in production. This talk is about how we got there, where we came from, where we are right now and where do we want to go from here. We will also cover what things worked out and which things didn't.

From on-boarding projects into Kubernetes to continous delivery, this talk will give you a good understanding of what lies ahead if you decided to take the road to schedule containers in production.

Transcript

1. Transforming The Government @ipedrazas We cannot confirm or deny this talk has ever happened
2. The World has Changed
3. Immutable, Ephemeral Infrastructure
5. The Jenkins Incident
6. Real DevOps it’s...
7. Ivan
8. A B C @ipedrazas
9. We’re hiring!
11. sprint 16 gds
12. It’s all about the people
13. Story of a Journey
15. Live Event Verification
22. Loads of Web Application Firewalls
23. https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/docker-nginx-proxy
24. Brace yourselves
25. Instead of focusing on building a solution we were focusing on running a solution in different environments
28. Farm of pets
29. 1 Region 3 AZs Based on CoreOS Bootstraps from a container
30. We run everything in containers
31. The idea behind our Platform is FOCUS
32. Write less, Deliver more
33. Sharing is caring
34. The Challenge...
35. “ In our experience, for a tool to be widely accepted, it must be compelling, add tremendous value, and reduce the overall cognitive load for the majority of Netflix engineers.” http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/how-we-build-code-at-netflix.html
36. The platform provides...
37. A place to run your applications
38. Security
39. Monitoring
40. Logging
41. CI / CD Building Delivery
42. DRONE Docker host Jenkins Docker Registry Cluster Cluster Cluster
44. https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/kb8or https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.1/docs/proposals/deployment.md
45. Deployments Deployments Deployments
46. Things we have learnt
47. COMPOSITION, COMPOSITION, COMPOSITION
48. Kubernetes helps you to be better
49. New Concepts are difficult
50. Manage your Resources
51. Testing...
52. Intergration testing as Blueprints
54. https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/vault-sidekick
57. Healthchecks
59. Secrets And Certificates
60. are messy
61. TANGLED
62. Do one thing and do it well
63. Smaller pieces of code using Composition
64. Less Technical Debt
65. Summary
66. Kubernetes helps you
67. Possible and risky
68. Fragile
70. Thank You!
71. Questions... or lunch? @ipedrazas
72. https://hodigital.blog.gov.uk/ https://github.com/UKHomeOffice https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/vault-sidekick https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/docker-nginx-proxy https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/kb8or https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.1 /docs/proposals/deployment.md http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/how-we-build-code-at-netflix.html Resources
74. This presentation contains 42 animated gifs It is not a coincidence... Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything… kubernetes included!