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Minutes for 2018-05-29

Minutes taken by: Zachary Seguin

Introduction

Brief Introduction of new members

Planning Items

Starting to hit our stride now and meetings for next 2 months are planned.

As mentioned we are always looking for constructive criticism and are currently enacted the two we have already recieved:

  • More focused on specific topics
  • Don’t assume users are familiar with fundamentals

We did also get some positive feedback:

  • Videos are great and want more like it
  • Appreciate the open source repo examples

Important: A lot of us are on the #cloudnative channel if ever need assistance!

Minutes

But first we need to quickly go over some highlight from the minutes during the last meetup.

  • Review of planning decisions from last meeting
  • Website govcloud.ca
  • More documentation being pushed to YouTube
  • Will cut out planning discussion from video minutes
  • Will upload 1.5hrs in chunks
  • AKS / ACS (Benefits / Comparisons)
  • ACS Engine
    • Take bare minimum cluster definition (small JSON) which then generates ARM templates
    • For operators that need complete control and customizability
    • Deploys cluster on Ubuntu
    • OpenShift support also being added
    • Can add custom extensions (e.g., choco)
  • Autoscaler
  • Heptio Ark: Must have for any cluster
  • VS Code: Many Kubernetes / Helm integration
  • JupyterHub and custom developer environments
  • Distributed Logging with EFK
  • Pachyderm

Questions

What kind of applications are people consider containerizing?

  • Identity management platform (6 services together) - Pat, Public Works
    • Working locally, automated pipeline, test
    • Alpine Linux, a few that are Ubuntu (more for COTS)
    • GitLab CI
  • Data science framework (spark, Hadoop, Drupal, etc.) - Will, Statistics Canada
    • Horizontal services that devops can deploy and maintain to support dev groups
    • Private NuGet repo, Jenkins, GitLab, etc.
    • Windows 17.09 or higher (Azure, Kubernetes) due to networking issues
    • Build containers for non-core applications of .NET
  • Best ways to set up local:
    • Easiest: Docker for Mac / Windows (currently in edge)
    • Hyperkube, Kubespray

NodeJS Multi Stage Builds

  • NodeJS Docker Core Maintainer
  • Introduced Alpine build
  • Multi Stage Builds
  • Many improvements towards speed / performance
  • New Windows branch

GitLab CI / CD

  • GitLab CI / CD
  • Auto Devops
  • Integration with Kubernetes
  • Pipelines
  • Demo
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