11th Docker Switzerland User Group Meetup How la Mobilière built a speedboat harborusing Docker

1. welcome to bern
docker community
11th Docker Switzerland User Group Meetup

2. Wie die Mobiliar dank Docker
zum Schnellboothafen wurde.
How la Mobilière built a speedboat harbor
using Docker
Darius Ueltschi
Daniel Strohecker

3. Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Project overview
3. Docker
4. Challenges
5. IT Operations
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4. La Mobilière – short overview
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https://www.mobiliar.ch
AppServers
#2400
Applications
#190

5. Introducing smide
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6. Introducing smide
Aim of smide:
• e-bike sharing
• Fully managed e-bikes without permanent stations
• Offers an easy way of bridging the “last mile” gap in public transportation
=> Explore alternative solutions for mobility
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7. Speedboat – boon and bane
What is a speedboat for
• Leads out of the business potential of an idea or concept
• Doesn’t matter, if the speedboat turns into a submarine and never reaches
the surface
• Doing all this things, without disturbing the core business
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..to be
or
not to be….

8. Speedboat – boon and bane
Implementation
• Building a minimum viable product (MVP)
• Cost sensitive
• No constraints, no guidelines ... just functionality … only speed matters …
• Security??? WTH is security ...
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9. Results in an operations nightmare
• The MVP isn’t conform to any existing guidelines, standard operation platforms…
• Doesn’t fit to any strategy
• Can’t be or shouldn’t be run in the standard Mobiliar data center
Speedboat – boon and bane
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10. smide - involved stakeholders
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Mobiliar operation:
• Runs the containers
Business
development:
• Project owner
• Defines requirements
• Handles the partners
• Financial responsibility
External
development:
• Implements the requirements

11. smide - architecture overview
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12. ..and now, to come to the point…
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13. Docker
• Contractors create Docker images which can be easily shipped to the Mobiliar
• An dedicated Docker registry helps separate the containers from the internal and the external companies
• The helping hand of Kubernetes deploys any necessary certificates, configurations and the deployment files
• NFS is used to persist data from the containers.
• Backup and restore are provided by Mobiliar internal tools
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14. Challenges
• We have decided not to use the Mobiliar CI / CD chain (Teamcity, AMW) in the public access cluster at the moment
 A separate solution is a huge amount of work
• The customer ships images directly, instead of code. Configuration is delivered separately
 Manual deployment 
• Communication between business development, external partners and Mobiliar operations
 Find a channel and use it!
• One speedboat is working and the next is coming => Multi tenant?
 Security handled by Kubernetes with certificates
 Network separation could work by using Calico instead of Flannel (or Canal)
 But Docker?
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15. … under the hood
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16. Operations
• Die Mobiliar is using Kubernetes heavily for the whole agile build/deploy chain
• Separate Kubernetes cluster for
 Development
 Preproduction
 Production
• Need of a Kubernetes Test Lab cluster, testing new versions (Kubernetes, Docker, Etcd, Flannel, etc.)
• Extra Kubernetes public cluster (speedboats) for
 Preproduction
 Production
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17. Operations - Monitoring
• With Prometheus and Grafana you can have an optimal Kubernetes single cluster monitoring system.
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18. Operations - Logging
• Logfiles can be analyzed using Splunk which is implemented in the Mobiliar. Labels can be helpful!
 The external partners are using the Kubernetes way of obtaining them.
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19. Operations - Dashboard
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20. … and a final word …
Transform your IT operations from a tanker in to a container home!
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21. … were we end up
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22. Questions & comments
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http://smide.ch/
https://www.mobiliar.ch