Tag: architecture
All the articles with the tag "architecture".
The Kubernetes cluster that had to survive the open ocean
A pre-sale asked for Kubernetes in the server room of a cruise ship. The ship is a distraction. The real constraint is that the network becomes a scheduled resource, present in port and gone at sea, and that splits the system into a runtime that has to survive for days with no link home and a lifecycle of updates and image pulls that can only happen while the ship is connected. EKS Anywhere runs the whole cluster on the boat, which is why it fit and why keeping the control plane onshore would not have.
The private cloud with no requirements
A government customer in the Gulf asked for a private cloud with Kubernetes and handed over no requirements. The design work turned out to be inventing the requirements: imagining the tenants who would show up and what they would ask for, then choosing technology against the two questions that stand in for the word best when there is no spec, whether it locks you in and whether it is already paid for.