Mr. Jake Yip1
1Australian Research Data Commons, Australia
Biography:
Jake Yip is a Technical Lead at ARDC. He works on the Nectar Research Cloud, with a focus on Kubernetes, Networking and Security. Jake is responsible for a number of projects, from Advanced Networking to CNCF conformance, with the vision to provide a high quality, up-to-date Kubernetes offering for the research community in Australia.
Jake is a member of ARCOS, a community with the aim to provide a national Kubernetes service and promote the use of containers in the research community.
In the international OpenStack community, Jake is the Project Team Lead of Magnum, the Container Infrastructure Service. Along with members from different cloud providers across the world, they develop and maintain the software which allows cloud providers to offer a Kubernetes service.
Abstract:
Situation: Kubernetes is fast becoming the standard platform for deploying applications on the cloud. Features like scale out and failover have attracted a lot of attention from application developers, who want a way to run their application in a highly reliable, scalable and maintenance free way. However, Kubernetes is a complex technology stack. A new user may find themselves spending too much time in the pits to achieve real benefits.
Task: This talk shares our experiences on a few fronts.
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Nectar Research Cloud (Nectar) is a Certified Kubernetes service provider. Nectar's self-service Kubernetes offering, Magnum, helps users get started easily.
Australian Research Container Orchestration Service (ARCOS) is a community with the aim to provide a national Kubernetes service and promote the use of containers in the research community.
Internally, Nectar uses Kubernetes to power many of its services, from the Jupyter Notebook Service to the Nectar Dashboard.
Action: We share our unique perspective, both as a provider and a user of Kubernetes, as well as a partner to other project groups.
As a provider, we share our experiences offering Kubernetes as a service to our users, what users ask for, and how we are evolving our offering to fit their needs.
As a user, we share both the pain and gain of running Kubernetes in production, with both success and horror stories.
As a partner, we share our future plans.
Result: Attendees should come away with a better understanding of what Kubernetes can offer.