LinuxCon+ContainerCon Europe 2016

The talk gives summary on one year of experience with containers in production. Rolling out distributed, heterogeneous applications was a difficult task. We present results from real customer projects, using Docker to deploy applications in a rapidly changing environment by Kubernetes and CoreOS.

Following a very strict approach, separating persistent and stateless applications, running everything in small units orchestrated by Kubernetes we could create descriptions of environments very rapidly, deploying complex environments with a single command. Examples in Java, Python and Ruby are shown. Security has been addressed to pass an extensive security audit.

The talk covers also operational challenges as implementing a deployment pipeline. logging under load, monitoring, distribution of passwords and configurations as limits to the containers resource management.