OperatorCon

Distributing Instana to Customer Maintained Kubernetes Clusters

The experience of migrating Instana to Nomad, managing tons of updates and transfering petabytes of data Instana felt comfortable enough to start thinking about shipping Instana int Kubernetes clusters hosted by customers. Within the last year, Instana developed an operator based distribution for some of their biggest customers. By now, they have reached a stable release cycle and are working on new features. In this talk, you’ll learn more about the ups and downs Instana went through when implementing the operator.

Topics covered:

• Why they picked Operators and what the other options were
• How to orchestrate 30 different components and 5 different databases
• Support air-gapped customers
• Automatic updates
• Testing such a complex operator using Unit/Integration/Test-pipelines

Debug a Kubernetes Operator

The goal of this live debugging session is to better understand how to work with a failing Kubernetes Operator and get used to some helpful Kubernetes commands.

Each of the examples follows the same structure:

• Apply an invalid YAML manifest
• Figure out what is wrong and how to fix it
• Hints that may help solve the problem
• A detailed walkthrough to understand and solve the problem

How an Operator Becomes the Hero of the Edge

With the rise of Kubernetes’ popularity across various use-cases, including edge computing, IoT, 5G, or AI/ML, single-cluster Kubernetes deployments are increasingly becoming an exception rather than the norm. As the number of clusters increases, the management of these clusters and the applications running in them quickly becomes the operators’ final boss.

In this video, you’ll learn how you can use our open source Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform to fight the final boss and automate the full lifecycle of complex multi-cluster solutions consisting of applications spread across multiple Kubernetes clusters.