Intro to Rancher

A talk I did on Rancher, and how my company swarmloyalty.co.za found it and how we're using it.

Transcript

1. Marcin Jekot swarmloyalty.co.za RANCHER @MyNaartjie
2. ABOUT ▸ Complete platform for managing Docker containers ▸ Open source ▸ Self-hosted ▸ Docker centric ▸ Private PaaS RANCHER
3. ABOUT ▸ Small startup ▸ Mobile loyalty solutions ▸ Not “at scale” (yet) ▸ > 3k active users / day ▸ Running NodeJS / Clojure services on the backend SWARM
4. NODEJS ON PM2 ▸ Freedom to pick NodeJS version for each service independently ▸ Support for Clojure * While there are ways to do both with pm2, Docker is a better abstraction 
 (at least for packaging)… SWARM: FROM PM2 (ON BARE METAL) TO DOCKER (IN THE CLOUD) We needed:
5. HOW WE FOUND RANCHER ▸ Docker on it’s own is not the answer… ▸ We need platforms / tools ▸ Something which is easy to setup ▸ Let’s not write our own AWS/Heroku ▸ But not happy with AWS either - preference for non- proprietary and open source ▸ Linux as the workhorse FTW OKAY DOCKER, BUT HOW…?
6. ALTERNATIVES TO RANCHER ▸ There are lots out there…. ▸ LOOKED AT ▸ Kubernetes http://kubernetes.io/ (too much complexity) ▸ Tectonic https://tectonic.com/ (hosted Kubernetes) ▸ Docker Cloud https://cloud.docker.com/ (hosted) ▸ AWS https://aws.amazon.com/ (1000+ options, I think Beanstalk was the closest) ▸ TODO ▸ Mesosphere DC/OS https://dcos.io/ (recently OSS’ed, looks very promising) ▸ OTHERS ▸ Vamp http://vamp.io/ ▸ Panamax http://panamax.io/ ▸ Shipyard http://shipyard-project.com/ ▸ PaaSTA https://github.com/Yelp/paasta
7. AND YES, WE WANT MORE WISHLIST ▸ git push to deploy ▸ Stability: some use cases still frail. Doesn’t have that “it just works” feeling you get when you use say nginx.
8. ABOUT TIME FOR DEMO TIME…
11. QUESTIONS…?