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To Infinity and Beyond

Handling heterogenous container clusters in AWS

AWS Summit | Feb 2019 | Christine Trahe, Cloud Platform Engineering

Title | Your name

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Containerized Applications

running on AWS

Enabling product engineers to

focus on delivering value to

Scout24 consumers and

customers.

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Platform Engineering, Scout24

Platform Setup

Multi-Account Strategy

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Multi-Account Strategy

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Keeping it simple

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Custom resource

Basic configuration

Mandatory Tagging

What the user sees

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Under the hood: Centralized compute infrastructure

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Under the hood: Logging and Monitoring

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What the user sees

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Learnings

• Services affecting eachother

• CloudFormation Application deployment

• Tooling around ECS

Services Affecting Eachother

But it doesn‘t scale to Infinity just yet…

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Too much CPU consumption

on the container instances

Load Balancer response time (latency)

increases, causing real time customer impact

Sharing resources not ideal…

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Application differences

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Categorizing Services to their needs

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Deploying Applications through CloudFormation

It‘s CloudFormation stacks all the way down…

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Stuck in Rollback State

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Deploying directly with EKS K8S API

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Tooling around ECS

Cross Account Permissions for a Service

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Many open source tools for K8S

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Key Takeaways

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• Lower level building block

• Non-heterogenous workloads

• Smaller community

• Not for application deployment (API calls, AWS

CodeDeploy)

• Infrastructure deployment

• Platform abstraction

• Higher level of abstraction

• Heterogenous workloads

• Large open source community

• AWS abstracts complexity

Amazon

EKS

• What level to abstract

• Standards and best practices

Platform

Engineering

Christine Trahe

AWS Summit Feb 2019| Cloud Platform Engineering, Scout24

https://jobs.scout24.com/#/department-positions/PlatformEngineering

Thank you! Questions?