Data on Kubernetes Community

Balancing redundancy and HA with costs: did you really need all N replicas?AKA We were running what and it cost us how much?! With Ren Lee SRE at Arista Networks

Key takeaways:

“Lazy but Simple” vs. “Proactive but Expensive” methods of scaling: knowing when to pay the seemingly scarier price of running infrastructure than costing engineering time, and vice versa

Hidden costs: cost of bad deployments and things that just don’t work

When autoscaling becomes the demon: especially in public cloud environments when access to pools of resources is no longer your barrier

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Key Topics: capacity planning, cost management, distributed services

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This meetup is sponsored by MayaData, which helped start the DOK.community and remains an active supporter. MayaData sponsors two Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, OpenEBS - the leading open-source container attached storage solution - and Litmus - the leading Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which was recently donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. As of June 2020, MayaData is the sixth-largest contributor to CNCF projects. Well-known users of MayaData products include the CNCF itself, Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista, Orange, Intuit, and others. Check out more info at https://mayadata.io/

Distributed databases on kubernetes  

And we just keep rolling along! Round 3 of the data on kubernetes community meetup! This time we will be talking with Nikhil Chandrappa Lead Software engineer at YugabyteDB. We will take a Practical look at running distributed SQL on Kubernetes using YugabyteDB  

Key takeaways: - Introduction to YugabyteDB Distributed SQL databases and its design principles - Design considerations for operationalizing Distributed SQL on Kubernetes - Deployment strategies for clustered Databases - Storage orchestration on Kubernetes - Yugabyte's approach for DBAAS on Kubernetes - DB Creation, Scale up / Scale down - Implementing Day 2 operations for distributed SQL databases - upgrades, backups, and monitoring - Distributed SQL Demo: A real-world e-commerce application  

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I am currently looking for speakers who can talk about things such as operators, databases, multicloud/hybrid, or anything else that could be interesting for the SRE engineering crowd.  

Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/

This meetup is sponsored by MayaData, which helped start the DOK.community and remains an active supporter. MayaData sponsors two Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, OpenEBS - the leading open-source container attached storage solution - and Litmus - the leading Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which was recently donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. As of June 2020, MayaData is the sixth-largest contributor to CNCF projects. Well-known users of MayaData products include the CNCF itself, Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista, Orange, Intuit, and others. Check out more info at https://mayadata.io/  

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Data on Kubernetes community virtual meetup #2 with Zach Dunn Senior Direct of Platform Operations, Optoro. We talk today about how the team at Optoro has implemented stateful apps on Kubernetes and what they have learned along the way.  

Let’s talk about storage. Optoro has moved to running stateful stores on Kubernetes. It’s a challenge, but it has a lot of value. Let’s talk about how we chose to do it, and what we figured out along the way.  Key takeaways: Learn about how Optoro chose to run stateful services on kubernetes. Laugh at other people's mistakes! Cry with us over our pain. Maybe question some of the assumptions around storage in k8s. Wonder about the future of data in Kubernetes.  

Bio: Zach's spent most of his tech career in something that vaguely resembles production infrastructure. This has ranged from hot aisle drudgery to professional nerd herder and budget owner. Once an individual but now is he collectively just known as "Arabella's Dad" or on occasion "William's Dad". He currently is the Senior Director of Platform Operations and CISO at Optoro helping teams build and deliver modern software for enterprise clients  

Join our slack: https://join.slack.com/t/dokcommunity/shared_invite/zt-g3ui5r0g-jDKz5dhh2W1ayElqwKYYAg

Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/

This meetup is sponsored by MayaData, which helped start the DOK.community and remains an active supporter. MayaData sponsors two Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, OpenEBS - the leading open-source container attached storage solution - and Litmus - the leading Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which was recently donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. As of June 2020, MayaData is the sixth-largest contributor to CNCF projects. Well-known users of MayaData products include the CNCF itself, Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista, Orange, Intuit, and others. Check out more info at https://mayadata.io/

Our kick-off inaugural event of Data on Kuberneters commenced with VP Developer Relations of Datastax Patrick McFadin talking about this vision for the future of doing data on k8s  

Kubernetes has been a great solution for deploying application infrastructure. Trying to manage your data with the same control plane has been, less than ideal. This has been even more true when using distributed databases like Apache Cassandra. Once you get past the storage and stateful sets, you still have a lot to do. Let’s have a frank talk about the new opportunities to make Kubernetes ready for data.  

Patrick McFadin is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, where he leads a team devoted to making users of Apache Cassandra successful. He has also worked as Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, where he helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Patrick is active in the Apache Cassandra project and a member of the CNCF TOC.  

The new data on k8s community (DOKC) is an openly governed and self-organizing group of curious and experienced operators and engineers concerned with running data-intensive workloads on Kubernetes. We will have weekly meetups on Tuesdays at 5pm UK / 9am PST and everything will be recorded and put up on youtube and podcast land.   

I am currently looking for speakers who can talk about things such as operators, databases, multicloud/hybrid, or anything else that could be interesting for the SRE engineering crowd.  

Join our slack: https://join.slack.com/t/dokcommunity/shared_invite/zt-g3ui5r0g-jDKz5dhh2W1ayElqwKYYAg

This meetup is sponsored by MayaData, which helped start the DOK.community and remains an active supporter. MayaData sponsors two Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, OpenEBS - the leading open-source container attached storage solution - and Litmus - the leading Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which was recently donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. As of June 2020, MayaData is the sixth-largest contributor to CNCF projects. Well-known users of MayaData products include the CNCF itself, Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista, Orange, Intuit, and others. Check out more info at https://mayadata.io/  

Come learn about running Cassandra in their hands-on workshop: https://www.datastax.com/events/cassandra-workshop-series