KubeDay Australia 2024

From 2018 to 2019, we migrated our SaaS product from a conventional setup of 1800 EC2 instances to a scalable architecture managed within Kubernetes Clusters. This session will discuss the entire journey of our migration endeavour, from the nine-month conversion phase to the ongoing challenges encountered in the post-migration landscape. Topics discussed will be migrating existing customers, mitigating the impacts of noisy neighbours, devising efficient deployment strategies, and fine-tuning resource allocation to align with customer usage patterns. Key Takeaways: - Insights into the rationale behind transitioning from EC2 instances to Kubernetes. - Strategies for provisioning dedicated container instances to each customer while preventing interference from noisy neighbours. - The rationale behind opting for managed services for our database and file storage needs. - Challenges encountered during the transition from hosting on Windows to a Linux-based container environment.

A little over four years ago Red Hat and IBM began the process of open-sourcing the Open Cluster Management Project. Today, the technology is productised and 100% open source. This is the story of that journey. We will take you through the history of the project and how it began as an internal solution at IBM built to solve a specific set of problems and then, through the power of collaboration between the community, IBM, and Red Hat, is now a widely used, fully open solution improving the management of Kubernetes clusters in hybrid environments. This is not the story of one product or one project, but rather a reminder of the power, and success, of being open for all. As we stand at the beginning of this new era of AI, we offer this story as a blueprint for open-sourcing AI and everything it entails. The future remains open and this is how we do it!