Orchestrating Kubernetes Automate cluster ops with Mist.io + Cloudify

Dimitris MoraitisCTO & co-founder

Our pain

How do we scale seamlessly?

How do we deploy effortlessly?

How do we move towards a microservices architecture?

Take 1We broke down our components into containers. Awesome!

But how do we orchestrate it all?

We ended up writing a shipload of custom scripts.

Take 2 Problems solved!

Well, now we have new ones :(

How do we orchestrate the deployment and operation of the Kubernetes clusters?

What do we do about stateful services?

Pure play orchestration to the rescue!

Challenge: provisioning of resources requires vendor specific plugins.

We would end up with a bunch of different blueprints, one for each cloud.

Provisioning resources on any cloud is among our strong points.

Why not write a Cloudify plugin of our own?

This way the same blueprint can be used on different clouds just by tweaking the inputs.

We did more than that!

We integrated Cloudify into our platform.

Live demo

Run blueprints from a web service, no local setup required

Spin a new cluster on any cloud in minutes VS hours

Scale the cluster itself with a single command

Benefits

Next steps

Trigger workflows based on monitoring events, e.g. auto-scale

Trigger workflows based on predefined schedule, e.g. backup all services every night

Look into cross cloud clusters (ubernetes)

Request beta access

https://mist.io/orchestration