Bala Ramesh

As stateful storage for persistent containerized applications continues to grow leaps and bounds, this session walks you through monitoring best practices with Prometheus. Attendees will obtain an understanding of the Prometheus monitoring stack and learn how PromQL can be used to obtain valuable storage metrics.

Kubernetes operators have revolutionized the way we look at stateful containerized workloads. High performance applications running on k8s require: high availability, proactive remediation, resource accountability at the cluster level, cluster upgrades, and more. Introducing Kubernetes operators! This session explains how operators help address the requirements listed above. Attendees will also grasp options available to design/build operators, and lessons learnt from transitioning to an operator-based design.

Yahoo! JAPAN is Japan’s largest portal site. The site offers more than a hundred services, including shopping, auctions, news, videos, weather information, disaster information, and maps. The Kubernetes-as-a-service (KaaS) platform that supports this portal site is running more than 860 Kubernetes instances and more than 200,000 containers. In 2018, Z Lab, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo, began improving the environment to provide stateful services on the KaaS platform. Z Lab adopted NetApp® AFF and FAS storage systems, which are highly compatible with Kubernetes and the Container Storage Interface (CSI), and the reliability of the compatibility has been evaluated. In the KaaS platform that supports a secure multitenant environment, NetApp’s CSI-compliant storage orchestrator, NetApp Astra™ Trident, enables dynamic storage provisioning and improved storage controls.