Switching Horses Midstream: The Challenges of Migrating 150+ Microservices to Kubernetes
SkillsCast coming soon.
The FT’s content platform team put our first containers live in mid-2015 and migrated the rest of our services over by April 2016. At that point, we weren't using Kubernetes - and much of what we were using, we built ourselves.
At the end of 2016, we decided we wanted to benefit from the work other people were doing and switch over to Kubernetes. But it's not easy to do that kind of move when you have 150+ microservices and you need to keep the existing platform running in parallel while you do the migration.
I'm going to talk about this migration and the challenges we faced.
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Switching Horses Midstream: The Challenges of Migrating 150+ Microservices to Kubernetes
Sarah Wells
I've been a developer for 15 years, leading delivery teams across consultancy, financial services and media. Over the last few years I have developed a deep interest in operability, observability and devops, and at the beginning of 2018, this led to me taking over responsibility for Operations and Reliability at the Financial Times.
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SkillsCast
SkillsCast coming soon.
The FT’s content platform team put our first containers live in mid-2015 and migrated the rest of our services over by April 2016. At that point, we weren't using Kubernetes - and much of what we were using, we built ourselves.
At the end of 2016, we decided we wanted to benefit from the work other people were doing and switch over to Kubernetes. But it's not easy to do that kind of move when you have 150+ microservices and you need to keep the existing platform running in parallel while you do the migration.
I'm going to talk about this migration and the challenges we faced.
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:
- Master Application Deployment and Scaling with Kubernetes and Docker (in London on 13th - 14th December 2018)
- Introduction to Docker Fundamentals (in London on 11th - 12th March 2019)
- Fast Track to Chaos Engineering with Russ Miles (in London on 13th - 15th March 2019)
- µCon London 2019 - The Conference on Microservices, DDD & Software Architecture (in London on 29th - 31st May 2019)
Thanks to our sponsors
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About the Speaker
Switching Horses Midstream: The Challenges of Migrating 150+ Microservices to Kubernetes
Sarah Wells
I've been a developer for 15 years, leading delivery teams across consultancy, financial services and media. Over the last few years I have developed a deep interest in operability, observability and devops, and at the beginning of 2018, this led to me taking over responsibility for Operations and Reliability at the Financial Times.