Dmitriy P
Hundreds of containers. Millions of external requests. Myriads of internal transactions. Monitoring and incident notifications. Simple scalability. 99.9% uptime! Deployment and rollback.
Kubernetes as a magic pill! To be, or not to be: that is the question!
Disclaimer
Although this article has been published, I had initially written it for personal use as a form of rubber duck debugging. Having played around with hipster technologies for more than two years, I feel that I should take a pause and reflect on how feasible those technologies have proven to be, and whether they would fit the needs of any of my upcoming projects. Nevertheless, I really hope that this material will find its reader and eventually help some of you decide whether to try and use Kubernetes or walk past it.
The article summarizes the experience that we’ve had at Lazada E-Logistics, the logistics wing of Lazada Group, which, in turn, is a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Here, we build and maintain systems that help automate the entire supply and fulfillment chain in the 6 largest countries of Southeast Asia.
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