I present Zalando’s “Hands-Off” approach for production deployments using Kubernetes hosted on AWS. The talk describes how we automate many steps in a typical Software Development Cycle. From build, deployment to production in a compliant way, and at the same time with ease of use to the developers.

1. DEPLOYING TO
KUBERNETES
A HANDS-OFF STRATEGY
HANDS-ON
RODRIGO REIS
2018-04-06

2. 2
WE ARE CONSTANTLY INNOVATING TECHNOLOGY
HOME-BREWED,
CUTTING-EDGE
& SCALABLE
technology solutions
~ 1,900
employees from
tech locations
(HQs in Berlin)7
77
nations
help our brand to
WIN ONLINE

3. 3
OUR FOOTPRINT AROUND EUROPE
as of March 2018
1
8
10
11
12
13
BERLIN HEADQUARTERS AND OUTLET
BRIESELANG FULFILLMENT CENTER
ERFURT FULFILLMENT CENTER AND TECH OFFICE
MÖNCHENGLADBACH FULFILLMENT CENTER AND TECH OFFICE
LAHR FULFILLMENT CENTER
DORTMUND TECH HUB
FRANKFURT OUTLET
DUBLIN TECH HUB
HELSINKI TECH HUB
MILAN (STRADELLA) FULFILLMENT CENTER
COLOGNE OUTLET
PARIS (MOISSY-CRAMAYEL) FULFILLMENT CENTER
SZCZECIN (GRYFINO) FULFILLMENT CENTER
HAMBURG ADTECH LAB
STOCKHOLM (BRUNNA) FULFILLMENT CENTER (start in 2018)
LODZ (GLUCHOW) FULFILLMENT CENTER (start in 2018)
VERONA (NOGAROLE ROCCA) FULFILLMENT CENTER (start in 2019)
10
9
7
6
5
3
2
1
11
12
13
4
14
15
15
14
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
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4. 4
OUR FOOTPRINT AROUND EUROPE
TECH
as of March 2018
1
8
BERLIN HEADQUARTERS AND OUTLET
BRIESELANG FULFILLMENT CENTER
ERFURT FULFILLMENT CENTER AND TECH OFFICE
MÖNCHENGLADBACH FULFILLMENT CENTER AND TECH OFFICE
LAHR FULFILLMENT CENTER
DORTMUND TECH HUB
FRANKFURT OUTLET
DUBLIN TECH HUB
HELSINKI TECH HUB
MILAN (STRADELLA) FULFILLMENT CENTER
COLOGNE OUTLET
PARIS (MOISSY-CRAMAYEL) FULFILLMENT CENTER
SZCZECIN (GRYFINO) FULFILLMENT CENTER
HAMBURG ADTECH LAB
STOCKHOLM (BRUNNA) FULFILLMENT CENTER (start in 2018)
LODZ (GLUCHOW) FULFILLMENT CENTER (start in 2018)
VERONA (NOGAROLE ROCCA) FULFILLMENT CENTER (start in 2019)
10
9
7
6
5
3
2
1
11
12
13
4
14
15
14
9
8
6
4
3
2
1
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16
5
7
10
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12
13
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6. 6
KUBERNETES
SETUP

7. 7
KUBERNETES
AN APPLICATION
ORCHESTRATOR

8. 8
KUBERNETES
FEATURES
VELOCITY SCALING
ABSTRACTING EFFICIENCY

9. 9
KUBERNETES
OUR SETUP
Masters
...
Workers
...Configs
...
apply

10. 10
KUBERNETES
OUR SETUP
Master
Config
Worker
EC2
Instances
CloudFormation
Stacks

11. 11
CDP

12. 12
CDP
FEATURES
INTEGRATED
✓
FREE STUFF
ZERO SETUP
TRIGGERED

13. 13
CDP
DEPLOYMENT PIPELINE
CDPGHE
deploytriggerpush code
pull

14. 14
CDP
DEPLOYMENT PIPELINE
DEMO

15. 15
CDP
BUILD PIPELINE
CDPGHE
triggerpush code
push

16. 16
CDP
BUILD PIPELINE
DEMO

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IN CONCLUSION
HANDS-ON
● Idea
● Design
● Plan
● Setup
● Code
● Test
● Build
● CI/CD
● Deploy
● Version?
● Compliance?
● Sizing?
● Cost?

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IN CONCLUSION
HANDS-OFF
CDP
● Idea
● Design
● Plan
● Setup
● Code
● Test
● Build
● CI/CD
● Deploy
● Version?
● Compliance?
● Sizing?
● Cost?
Repo Manager
Kubernetes

19. THANK YOU
QUESTIONS?
RODRIGO REIS
rodrigo@zalando.de
linkedin.com/in/rodrigoregaloreis
2018-04-06
DIGITAL FOUNDATION
SOFTWARE ENGINEER