Lightning talk on some of the challenges of building a platform to support the application developers on microservices.

1. BUILDING A DEVOPS
PLATFORM FOR
MICROSERVICES
Tim Cochran

2. THE PLATFORM
A good platform gets out the way allows developers to
focus on functionality

3. THE PLATFORM

4. THE MICROSERVICES PLATFORM
Service Service Service
Platform

5. PAAS TOOLS
...are building blocks for creating your
platform

6. CONSUMERS OF THE PLATFORM
Platform
QA
Developers
Operations
Infrastructure

7. GROWING PLATFORM CAPABILITIES
Platform
Network ComputeData
Containers Service
Discovery
Fault
Tolerance
Monitoring
Build
Pipelines
Regression
Testing
Smoke
Testing
API
Gateway
Release
Tracking
Document
Store
Analytics
Devops
Maturity

8. INTRODUCING DEVOPS CULTURE

9. PLATFORM TEAM

10. FEDERATION
Self-service as much as possible
Don’t expose unnecessary
internals to consumers

11. FEDERATION
Declarative resource provisioning
Pipeline configuration in repo
Self-service config

12. THE SERVICE DEVELOPER
Mimic Production?

13. Phoenix Servers - Avoids snowflake
servers and configuration drift
BUILDING THE PLATFORM

14. TESTING THE PLATFORM
Infrastructure testing tools
Smoke tests and Health check

15. VIRTUAL ENVS
Don’t focus your platform completely around one application
An environment is a location in the cloud.
Application Server (s)