Raw notes from Ray’s @saturnism session. Ray is always in motion.

Ray Tsang

Surprised that he spent some minutes of his valuable time on the old “oasis in the desert” story. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great story, and he tells it very well, but these sessions are only 45 minutes long. He only spent 3 minutes on it, so I guess it’s fine.

Your App

  • Don’t start with necessarily start with Kubernetes. Follow best practices. Start with the Twelve-Factore App!

Test

Test

Containers

  • Runtime environment is your responsibility now.

  • You’ll need a dedicated team for container hygiene.

Choose a JDK

  • Container aware

  • OpenJDK 8u192 or above

  • Showed the MaxHeap problem: if you don’t specify, it will take the entire available memory, causing Docker to kill you, to illustrate the non-container aware JDK problem.

    • -XX:+UseParallelGC
  • Two types of memory usage in Java: Heap, Native Memory Usage

Memory

Docker Tips and Tricks

http://ridingthecrest.com/blog/2017/02/23/ray-tsang-docker-tips-notes.html

Just Jib It

Jib is a maven plugin, that creates a Docker container . jib-maven-plugin.

Ray Tsang

Local Kubernetes

  • k3s, k3d, kind, minikube

  • k3s is good for linux environments.

  • But it looks like the Docker for Mac built-in Kubernetes.

Keep Base Deployment Simple

The hardest part is to write the yaml file.

k create deployment -oyaml --dry-run
k create svc -oyaml --dry-run
  • Still need to configure resources dictionary. requests, limits, memory, etc.

  • Still need to configure liveness (are you alive) and readiness (are you ready to accept traffic) probes.

  • lifecycle

    • SIGTERM.

    • preStop, httpGet, exec tcpSocket

  • Put the healthchecks on a separate port, so you can put a network security group around it.

Some skaffold thing

  • Supports debugging. Very nice.

kustomize

  • kustomization.yaml