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To kube or not to kube? Vik Bhatti Head of Infrastructure @otaku_coder

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We are hiring! careers.trussle.com

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Kubernetes is great Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash

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...but our experience wasn’t great... YMMV

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Kubernetes, What happen? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Running opensource software at scale “Debugging open source software that’s built with technology unfamiliar to you but you’re running in production is like performing life saving exploratory surgery on an extraterrestrial being that crash landed in your back yard.” Jameson Lopp CTO @CasaHODL https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1093518751830556672

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The Infrastructure Story 2016 First 2 engineers hired Decided on AWS + Elastic beanstalk CodeShip - because it was free 2017 Teething pains with Elastic Beanstalk Hired first QA - moved to Jenkins Hired first infra engineer - moves to k8s k8s on AWS deployed with KOPS Lots of regular outages + frustration 2018

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What devs want

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What k8s promises

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What I want

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What k8s actually delivers

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Kubernetes - Why we struggled Kube the easy kinda hard way Run by an inexperienced team Manual undocumented tweaks Frustrating developer experience Too many turtles!

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The Paradox of Choice

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The Startup Cloud Journey Early product experiments Builds + deployments Continuous Delivery Infrastructure- as-code Automate everything Microservices Testing/QA Early stage Seed/Series A Growth Scale Lots of change Chaos Engineering Basic infrastructure Data Infrastructure Low Cost/ High Risk High Cost/ Low Risk

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Outage? Or No Outage?

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Outage? Or No Outage?

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Outage - DNS Controller Pod

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Outage? Or No Outage?

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Partial Outage - Downscale Pods

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Whats next?

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Infrastructure Roadmap Migrate from k8s to ECS New multi-account architecture (using terraform) Establishing continuous delivery + automation Coaching teams on AWS

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Conclusions

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Focus on the team

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Automate Processes First

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Good UX Earns Trust

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[email protected] Questions?