1. Solr Cloud on Kubernetes
Manoj Bharadwaj
CloudCosmos
Independent Consultant @LexisNexis
Haystack 2019

2. Why?

3. Thank you Alex!
Hopefully solve all
problems with
alternative
approaches!

4. Universal language
to deploy,
configure and
manage in the
cloud

5. And in a local
environment

6. Common approach
for AWS, GCP,
Azure, local
(MiniKube) and
others

7. Reduced cost of
ownership
DevOps and SRE talent pool

8. Used at Google
scale

9. Extensive industry
wide support for
tooling

10. The Devil in the
details!

11. Helm (Tiller)
Manage K8S applications

12. StatefulSet(s),
ConfigMap(s),
PersistentVolume,
PVC

13. Rather steep
learning curve

14. ZK and cluster
management

15. Multi-zone
configurations and
stateful set affinity
Specific to AWS?

16. Pod (re)placement

17. Spot instances

18. Future is bright
though!

19. Usage still in its
infancy

20. Good buzz on
success with
ZK/Kafka on K8S

21. Do you have
stories to share?

22. Let’s talk
We are hiring! 