IBM: Kubernetes

Project Details

Team Members

• Heather Malmskog
• Carlin Mische
• Michel Thomas
• Franklin Slaby

Problem

• In cloud environments, cluster managers like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, and others are getting a lot of attention.
• These technologies are designed to manage application deployment in large scale environments using container technologies such as LXC and Docker.
• With deployments reaching hundreds/thousands of containers, features like auto-scaling, data replication, and data persistence simplify managing at scale.
• With so many options available, how does an honest, hardworking app developer decide what to use?
• In our project we were tasked with deploying a Kubernetes cluster and validate key cluster management features.
• We also developed an Ansible playbook to automatically deploy our cluster into a cloud environment.
• This was all done to report back to IBM about our experience with the Kubernetes cluster manager as new users.
• If you’re interested in learning more, please check out our suggested readings at https://github.com/Misch-/Kubernetes-Capstone/wiki

Technologies Used