Carlos Sanchez

CloudBees, Spain

Carlos Sanchez specializes in the automation and quality of software development, and QA and operations processes, from build tools to Continuous Delivery following the DevOps philosophy. He has spoken on the subject at several conferences around the world. Involved in Open Source for over ten years, he is a member of the Apache Software Foundation amongst other open source groups, contributing to several projects, such as Apache Maven, Fog, or Puppet. He works at CloudBees scaling the Jenkins platform.

Speaker's activity

Scaling Docker with Kubernetes

50 minutes

Talk

English

Docker is revolutionizing the way people think about applications and deployments. It provides a simple way to run and distribute Linux containers for a variety of use cases, from lightweight virtual machines to complex distributed micro-services architectures.

Kubernetes is an open source project to manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system, managing and running Docker containers across multiple Docker hosts, offering co-location of containers, service discovery and replication control. It was started by Google and now it is supported by Microsoft, RedHat, IBM and Docker Inc amongst others.

Once you are using Docker containers the next question is how to scale and start containers across multiple Docker hosts, balancing the containers across them. Kubernetes also adds a higher level API to define how containers are logically grouped, allowing to define pools of containers, load balancing and affinity.

Jenkins Continuous Integration environment can be dynamically scaled by using the Kubernetes and Docker plugins, using containers to run slaves and jobs, and also isolate job execution.

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