maximizing the value of containers and microservices with the right platform

Maximizing the Value of Containers and Microservices with the Right Platform

Miska Kaipiainen, Kontena, Inc.

CEO & Founder

About Me

Miska KaipiainenNameCurrent Work

@miskakaiTwitter

CEO & Founder of Kontena, Inc.Previous Digia, Visualweb, Meshcom

Technologies, Radionet

Bio Running high tech companies to international markets with passion to technology. Hobby programmer and electronic music producer.

Meetups Docker Helsinki MeetupAmazon AWS Finland Meetup

Why, What? Containers?

Virtualization vs DockerInterest over Time

Virtualization Docker

GoogleTrends:5yfrom23Oct,2016

Rolling Out DockerFor Production

= Hard

Managing Micro Services= Hard

Microservices with Containers…

Luckily for us, there are some solutions!

The Choices

Do-it-yourselfplatform

Useoneofthehostedplatforms

Useoneoftheexistingplatforms

Do-It-YourselfContainerPlatform

Do you really want to build this by yourself?

Creating Your Own Container Platform is Hard!

• Don’t do it! Seriously, you don’t want to do it!

The only valid reasons to go for DIY platform

1. Use the experience to learn all the nasty parts of container technology

2. You are doing something so special that it does not work with any of the existing solutions

3. Get into container platform business

Let’s create a container platform!

How’s Kontena created? What components does it contain?

Getting Perspective:

Example:KontenaContainerPlatform

KontenaGridAnumberofphysicalorvirtualmachines– KontenaNodes –createaKontenaGrid.Thenodesmaybelocatedanywhere;insingledatacenter,differentAZsordifferentcloudproviders.

OverlayNetworkKontenawillautomaticallycreateanoverlaynetworkpoweredbyWeave andconnectallnodesofaGrid.Overlaynetworkenableservicestocommunicatewitheachotherinmulti-host,multi-AZenvironment.

ServiceDiscoveryKontenahasabuilt-inservicediscoverypoweredbyetcd.ItisusedtoautomaticallyassignDNSaddressesforanyservicesrunninginKontena.ItisalsousedbyKontena’sloadbalancerforzero-downtimeoperation.

OrchestrationKontena’sorchestratorisdistributing,runningandmonitoringallKontenaServicesinaGrid.Servicesmaybestatelessorstateful,andtheyareautomaticallydistributedacrossNodesinaGrid.

ContainerizedWorkloadsWithKontena,allcontainerizedworkloadsaredescribedasServices.KontenaServiceiscomposedofcontainersbasedonthesameimagefile.Servicesmaybescaledandlinkedtogethertocreatecomplexelasticapps.

OS

Docker

KontenaNodes&AgentKontenaAgentmaybeinstalledtoanymachinecapableofrunningDocker.Itisrunningasaprivilegedcontainerina

machine.

KontenaMasterKontenaMasterisorchestratingtheentireKontenasystem.Itprovides

APIsusedbyKontenaCLI,WebUIandthirdpartyintegrations.

KontenaMastermaybeinstalledashigh-availabilitysetupifneeded.

AllBatteriesIncluded!

Built-InImageRegistrySometimesprojectscannotusepubliclyhosted

containerimageregistrieslikeDockerHub.Kontenacomeswithbuilt-incontainerimageregistryprovidingprivateandsecuresolution.

Built-InVPNAccessAllcontainersareruninsideavirtualprivatenetworkbydefault.Nothingisexposedto

Internetunlessexplicitlydefined.WithKontena’sbuilt-inVPNaccessdeveloperscan

securelyaccessthoseresources.

Built-InLoadBalancerKontenacomeswithbuilt-inloadbalancer.

BasedonHaproxy.Itfeaturesfullyautomatic,zero-downtimeoperationduetodeep

integrationwithKontena’sservicediscoveryandorchestrationtechnology.

AggregatedStats&LogsKontenaprovidesreal-timelogandstatisticsstreamscontainers.Thestreamsmaybegroupedandaggregatedtoproduceservicelevelstreams.ThisallowseasyviewingoflogsandstatisticsforyourapplicationCPU,memory,diskandnetworkusage.

UserManagementwithAuditTrailAlleventsandactionsperformedthroughKontenaCLIorAPIsareloggedintoaudittrail.Combinedwithusersandaccesscontrol,theaudittrailsupportmakesKontenaareliableandsecuresolutionforanyenterprisedeployments.

Built-InSecretsManagementWhenyourapplicationrequiresaccesstoAPIsordatabases,you'lloftenneedtousesecretssuchaspasswordsandaccesstokensforauthenticatingtheaccess.KontenaVaultisasecurekey/valuestoragethatcanbeusedtomanagesecretsinKontena.

Works on any infrastructure!Kontena works on any public cloud or in your own private datacenter; hybrid environment,

virtualized or bare metal.

We have 1k+ members in 35 Meetup groups globallyThe Community Effort

Summary about Kontena Project• The Kontena platform development started in the beginning of

2015. It’s almost 2 years now!• Over the past 2 years we have

• Written nearly 50K lines of code• Released 78 releases• Had 1991 commits from 30 contributors• Closed 309 issues• Processed feedback from hundreds of end users and projects depending on

Kontena

Please use this info as reference when thinking if you should start creating your own container platform J

Off-the-ShelfContainerPlatforms

So, how to choose the right platform?• There is no single platform that everybody

should be using• All of the platforms and solutions are still

“in progress”• Don’t trust any of the advertised features!• Don’t get carried away by hype!• Only way to choose the right platform is

to try them out• While testing, try to think what is the total

cost of ownership for that platform!

Happy platform hunting!

Thank You!! info@kontena.io

" @kontenainc

# slack.kontena.io

$ github.com/kontena/kontena

meetup.com/pro/kontena

% www.kontena.io