November 17, 2019

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Lightning Talk: Oh Sh*t! The Config Changed!

Lightning Talk: Oh Sh*t! The Config Changed!

The majority of production incidents for Pusher's platform team during 2018 had the same root cause… a broken config! Kubernetes doesn't have a sense of versioning for configmaps and secrets and, i …

Talk Title Lightning Talk: Oh Sh*t! The Config Changed!
Speakers Joel Speed (Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Pusher)
Conference KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
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Location Barcelona, Spain
Date May 19-23, 2019
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The majority of production incidents for Pusher’s platform team during 2018 had the same root cause… a broken config! Kubernetes doesn’t have a sense of versioning for configmaps and secrets and, in a lot of cases, updating configuration won’t even be reflected into running pods. So how can you make sure that your pods are always running the latest configuration? We came up with a solution for this problem in late 2018 which will be the focus of this session. What is Wave? What does it do? How does it work?

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