"Gaming AWS with Docker : 70% Cost Reduction With 2x More Scale at Shippable - Avi Cavale, Shippable - Hosting costs are an area of major concern for most SaaS companies. These costs drive many important decisions around scale, pricing, and feasibility of a freemium business model. Running our service on Docker containers has helped us at Shippable reduce cost of operations on Amazon EC2 by ~70%, while also reducing deployment time.

1. gaming with
@avinci

2. F o u n d e d : F e b 2 0 1 3
H Q : S e a t t l e
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the fastest
Continuous Delivery platform

3. why is it so successful?

4. why is it so successful?
because of what they don’t let you do

5. really?

6. corporate data centers
lack standardization

7. because
every app is custom built
dev
app A
dev
app B

8. &
infrastructure has the onus of
app resiliency

9. took Custom away from the Customer

10. • standardized
massive machines
– multi-procs
– multi-cores
– multi-NICs
• virtualization
• business model
– arbitrage

13. need for speed

14. Shippable Continuous Delivery
mw
master

15. Shippable Continuous Delivery
mw
master
dev1/mw
master
CI
fork
push

16. Shippable Continuous Delivery
mw
master
dev1/mw
master
CI
fork
push
pull req
CI

17. Shippable Continuous Delivery
mw
master
dev1/mw
master
CI
fork
pre
prod
prod
push
pull req
CI

18. Shippable Continuous Delivery
mw
master
dev1/mw
master
dev2/mw
master
CI
CI
CI
fork
fork
push
pull req
pre
prod
prod
push
pull req
CI

19. • m3.medium
– $50 a month (0.07/hr )
• each component (ui,
mw…)
– 3 CI machines
– 2 devs, 1 master
$150 a month / component
X 8

20. $1200 a month
just for build machines

21. $1200 + $800 + $2000
builds pre prod prod
m3.med
24 VMs
m3.med
16 VMs
m3.lrg
20 VMs
total infrastructure costs

22. $1200 + $800 + $2000
builds pre prod prod
m3.med
24 VMs
m3.med
16 VMs
m3.lrg
20 VMs
total infrastructure costs
$4K a month

23. to the rescue
aug 2013

25. • provision a super
large VM
– c3.2xlarge

26. • provision a super
large VM
– c3.2xlarge
• layer docker

27. • provision a super
large VM
– c3.2xlarge
• layer docker
• provision containers
for each component
index.docker.io

28. 2 x c3.2xlarge
$600/month
prod

29. $1200 + $800 + $2000
builds pre prod prod

30. $1200 + $800 + $2000
builds pre prod prod
$300 + $300 + $600
c3.xlarge
2 VMs
c3.xlarge
2 VMs
c3.2xlarge
2 VMs

31. + all the cool stuff of docker
portability
layering of images
instant spin-up
no super slow aws snapshots
build once and run anywhere

32. $4000  $1200
on

33. $4000  $1200
on
60VMs  6VMs

34. www.shippable.com
the fastest
Continuous Delivery platform

35. avi cavale
@avinci
avi@shippable.com

36. thank you