Lightning Talk: Discovery, Consul and Inversion of Control for the infrastructure
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Discovery is as hard as naming, meaning still a complicated problem in large infrastructure. Many systems exists, but few outside a given ecosystem. Pierre and his Team have been using HashiCorp's Consul at large scale for several years (more than 250k services on 35k+ machines in 9 datacenters), and improving it until being the first external contributors to it (more than 70 merged upstreams contributions). It is now the common repository of all systems: included in all of their apps as well as within the deepest parts of the infrastructure which mixes low-latency workloads as well as one of biggest Hadoop Clusters in the world.
During this Lightning Talk Pierre will share with you how they learnt on how relying on a global discovery can leverage new ways of uncoupling infrastructure from code. They call this Inversion of control: all the organization can now push and retrieve semantics to create new services easily:
DNS/network provisioning
Automatic weighted Load-Balancing
Automatic alerting
Security Scanners
New cross-applications features
This new way of creating semantics free the SRE as well as the whole company from tools and allow the whole organization be be more agile and innovative.
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Lightning Talk: Discovery, Consul and Inversion of Control for the infrastructure
Pierre Souchay
Pierre Souchay started in development and software architecture. He founded a company of audio/video encoders before joining a public cloud company as the main software architect. He is now working on building new architecture for infrastructure and leading a team responsible for Consul at Criteo, a large Consul user with more than 250k services on 35k nodes. Pierre is also the author of consul-templaterb, a high-performance templating program similar to consul-template, and is a maintainer of diplomat, a ruby gem to interact with Consul in Ruby. Pierre and his team are also significant contributors to Consul, working hard to improve its performance and scalability.