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At Buzzvil's AWS Summit 2018 Talk
AWS holds its annual AWS Summit in major cities around the world. Seoul has hosted the event every year since 2015. Now in its fourth year, AWS Summit Seoul 2018 took place on April 18–19, with around 100 sessions, keynotes exploring the future of cloud computing, partner exhibition booths, and a variety of other activities.
Buzzvil runs almost all of its development infrastructure on AWS. We use services including EC2, S3, Cloudfront, RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache, Redshift, Athena, and Kinesis, so the Summit is always of great interest to us. This year, we had an extra reason to be excited: Ben, a Senior Engineer on Buzzvil's Product team, was speaking in the community track. In this post, we will briefly share his presentation, “Practical Kubernetes on AWS.”
Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool designed by Google and now managed by the Linux Foundation. Ben explained why Buzzvil adopted Kubernetes and why we needed it. For most startups without dedicated infrastructure engineers, managing containers across multiple instances is difficult. Adopting and making good use of a container orchestration tool can be a great help.
He also introduced useful Kubernetes features that make services more reliable: Automatic binpacking, which optimizes the number of nodes when creating new Docker containers; Horizontal scaling, which automatically scales deployments according to predefined metrics; and Self-healing, which automatically recovers when a container or node fails.
Next, he introduced kops (Kubernetes Operations), a tool that helps teams use Kubernetes effectively on AWS, and gave a short hands-on demonstration to make the concepts easier to understand. For more details from Ben's presentation—including why we adopted Kubernetes, its features, and the practical demo—see the resources below.
At Buzzvil, we are always exploring and trying ways to make our services faster and more reliable. Adopting Kubernetes was one result of that effort. Having the opportunity to share what we have learned at AWS Summit made this occasion especially meaningful. For more about the challenges our engineers tackle and the stories behind our development work, visit the Buzzvil Tech Blog.