Description:

It has always been advised to architect our apps to both scale, fault/load tolerance and be resilient to arbitrary failure. Most services are implemented as a container under the hood. Traditionally, you would deploy django to some virtual machine instance. PaaS has been the buzz word for quite sometime now, and is paving way for CaaS - Container as a Service. Containers, most often use Docker to produce immutable, isolated and quick to sign up application images.

With containers there have been few known challenges:

How do multiple containers talk to each other?

How do I horizontally scale my container service?

How do multiple container services discover each other?

How do we secure our container network?

How do we deploy new containers and roll back previous ones?

To answer the above problems and address the issue of orchestration, scheduling and other automation tasks Kubernets was released by Google.

This talk is going to be about how we can use Docker containers and Kubernetes to help our production Django web application to be scalable, secure and fault tolerant.

The ideas expressed in the workshop are not tied closely to Django, they can very easily be extrapolated to a cluster design consisting of web server, database server, load balancer and other standard components. Django just happens to be one amongst the most popular python web frameworks, which accounts for its selection.

Specifically we will look into the following list during our workshop :

• How Docker and Kubernetes is used.
• The deployment of Docker images.
• Building application images using Source to Image.
• Handling application configuration and secrets.
• Logging and monitoring of applications.
• Scaling up of containers.
• Service Discovery inside the cluster.
• Securing the cluster.

Overview of Content

• Deploying a sample Django App - gunicorn

• Overview of Multiple Ways to Deploy it

  Pass

  Traditional VMs

  Containers

• Enter Docker

  Docker Overview

  Creating Containers

  Running Containers

  Backup Images

  Data Volumes

  Pros, Cons & Challenges with Containers

• Challenges with Docker Container

  Scheduling on an appropriate node

  Service/Microservice/Third Party Service Discovery

  Scaling it up and down - manually / automatically

  Safe update/rollback. A/B Canary Test

  Environment Variables, Namespacing & Secrets Management

• Enter Kubernetes

  Kubernetes Architecture overview

  Overview of kubectl - the CLI to interact with cluster

  Deploy django container on kubernetes

  Understanding services & pods

  Adding additional containers - postgresql

• Additonal

  Continuous Integration & Delivery

  Canary Testing

  Horizontal Scaling

  When & When NOT to use Kubernetes

  Popular Alternatives

Prerequisites:

You should be well aware of django or any other popular web framework, and should have pushed a web app to public usage.

Speaker Info:

Saket is founder of a SaaS product named Sosio. Sosio caters to the data needs of non-profits and SMEs. He has been semi-active in tech-conferences attending and delivering talks across the globe. In his personal capacity he has introduced Python to more than 500 individuals, and conducted training sessions at corporate houses like Oracle. In his previous life, he spent good chunk of his time optimising computational mechanics algorithms.

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