Kubernetes & CoreOS

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the declared intentions. It is ideal for micro-services architectures, especially for facilitating upscaling and auto-healing, but also introduces new challenges.

CoreOS is an open-source lightweight operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed for providing infrastructure to clustered deployments. It's an ideal distro for deploying Kubernetes clusters.

Dimitris Moraitis and Chris Loukas will present and discuss the basic concepts and features of Kubernetes and CoreOS and then present how they're applying them in the context of repackaging Mist.io in order to improve scalability and simplify maintenance. We'll discuss also about common issues on maintaining a Kubernetes cluster, including monitoring its operation, performing rolling updates, backups and recovering from failures.

Kelsey Hightower (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower), Staff Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform and author of "Kubernetes: Up and Running" will make a 15-minute intro to Kubernetes at the beginning of the Meetup.