December 7, 2019

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Over-engineering My Home with Kubernetes

Over-engineering My Home with Kubernetes

Home automation is increasingly popular. However, the one thing that is often overlooked with current solutions is their complete lack of attention to high availability: Typically a failure of your au …

Talk Title Over-engineering My Home with Kubernetes
Speakers Matthias Grüter (Engineering Manager, Spotify)
Conference KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
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Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Date Apr 30-May 4, 2018
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Home automation is increasingly popular. However, the one thing that is often overlooked with current solutions is their complete lack of attention to high availability: Typically a failure of your automation hub quickly renders an elegant smart home into an ordinary dumb home.In the pursuit of building a reliable smart home, we will investigate ways to make the open-source automation platform “home-assistant” highly available by applying Kubernetes to a not quite standard problem. Some might call it over-engineering, others might call it thorough engineering. In any case, by the end of this talk, we will have explored a more exotic use case for Kubernetes.

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