The document introduces Giant Swarm, which addresses challenges of service discovery, scheduling, deployment, and operations for microservices and stateless web applications. It discusses motivations like polyglot persistence and independently deployable services. An example template demonstrates declaring services, their dependencies, and deployment configuration for automated and scalable operations on multiple servers.

1. Introducing the Giant Swarm
Timo Derstappen
@teemow

2. Overview
● Motivation
● Challenges
● The Swarm
● Demo

3. Motivation

4. Example Application

5. Stateless Web Applications
● Twelve Factors
● Scale out your apps

6. Polyglot Persistence
● No monolithic database anymore
● Use the right tool for the job

7. Microservices
● Group small apps around business
capabilities
● Services handle their state
● Independently deployable and scalable

8. Microservices

9. Challenges

10. Service Discovery
● How do services find each other?
● Deploy new versions of your services
● Scale your services

11. Scheduling
● Decides where to run your service
● Track resources and workloads
● Optimize the utilization of your servers

12. Deployment
● Should be easy and automated
● Different strategies
● A/B Testing

13. Operations
● Network
● Storage
● Provisioning
● Logging
● Monitoring

14. The Swarm

15. Example
service1:
components:
- image: dockerfile/redis
- image: giantswarm/service1
dependencies: redis
min: 2
service2:
min: 4
components:
- image: dockerfile/redis
- image: giantswarm/service2
dependencies: redis
dependencies: service1

16. Template
● Declare your services and their
dependencies
● Repeatable and shareable

17. Demo

18. Thanks for listening! We’re
Timo Derstappen
@teemow
http://giantswarm.io
hiring!