Building a Kubernetes on Bare-Metal Cluster to Serve Wikipedia
Starting about a year ago, the Technical Operations team of the Wikimedia Foundation (aka WMF), the organization that runs wikipedia, decided to embark on a journey pushing for streamlined service/mic …
| Talk Title | Building a Kubernetes on Bare-Metal Cluster to Serve Wikipedia |
| Speakers | Alexandros Kosiaris (Senior SRE, Wikimedia Foundation), Giuseppe Lavagetto (Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation) |
| Conference | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe |
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| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Date | Apr 30-May 4, 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Starting about a year ago, the Technical Operations team of the Wikimedia Foundation (aka WMF), the organization that runs wikipedia, decided to embark on a journey pushing for streamlined service/microservice delivery. The project is still ongoing. During the build-out of the kubernetes clusters that are going to power the services responsible for Wikipedia, there were a number of interesting decisions that had to be takenr regarding the networking implementation, the routing of external traffic, the chosen bootstrap method for the clusters and the building methodology for containers and last but not least the transition plan from the old style services to the kubernetes style services. This talk is about sharing these implementation decisions with a wider public
