The document discusses container platforms and microservices. It describes building your own container platform as difficult and outlines alternatives like using a hosted platform or existing platform. The Kontena platform is provided as an example of an existing platform, describing its components like the grid, overlay network, service discovery, and orchestration. It emphasizes trying multiple platforms to determine the right fit based on features and total cost of ownership.

1. Maximizing the Value of Containers and
Microservices with the Right Platform
Miska Kaipiainen, Kontena, Inc.
CEO & Founder

2. About Me
Miska KaipiainenName
Current Work
@miskakaiTwitter
CEO & Founder of Kontena, Inc.
Previous Digia, Visualweb, Meshcom
Technologies, Radionet
Bio Running high tech companies to
international markets with passion to
technology. Hobby programmer and
electronic music producer.
Meetups Docker Helsinki Meetup
Amazon AWS Finland Meetup

3. Why, What? Containers?

4. Virtualization vs Docker
Interest over Time
Virtualization Docker
Google Trends: 5y from 23 Oct, 2016

5. Rolling Out Docker
For Production
= Hard

7. Managing Micro
Services
= Hard

9. Microservices with
Containers…

10. Luckily for us, there
are some solutions!

12. The Choices
Do-it-yourself
platform
Use one of the
hosted platforms
Use one of the
existing platforms

13. Do-It-Yourself
Container
Platform

14. Do you really want to build this by
yourself?

16. Creating Your Own Container
Platform is Hard!
• Don’t do it! Seriously, you don’t want to do it!
The only valid reasons to go for DIY platform
1. Use the experience to learn all the nasty parts of
container technology
2. You are doing something so special that it does
not work with any of the existing solutions
3. Get into container platform business

17. Let’s create a
container platform!
How’s Kontena created? What components does it contain?
Getting Perspective:

18. Example: Kontena Container Platform
Kontena Grid
A number of physical or virtual machines – Kontena Nodes –
create a Kontena Grid. The nodes may be located anywhere;
in single data center, different AZs or different cloud
providers.
Overlay Network
Kontena will automatically create an overlay network
powered by Weave and connect all nodes of a Grid. Overlay
network enable services to communicate with each other in
multi-host, multi-AZ environment.
Service Discovery
Kontena has a built-in service discovery powered by etcd. It
is used to automatically assign DNS addresses for any
services running in Kontena. It is also used by Kontena’s load
balancer for zero-downtime operation.
Orchestration
Kontena’s orchestrator is distributing, running and
monitoring all Kontena Services in a Grid. Services may be
stateless or stateful, and they are automatically distributed
across Nodes in a Grid.
Containerized Workloads
With Kontena, all containerized workloads are described as
Services. Kontena Service is composed of containers based
on the same image file. Services may be scaled and linked
together to create complex elastic apps.
OS
Docker
Kontena Nodes & Agent
Kontena Agent may be installed to any
machine capable of running Docker. It
is running as a privileged container in a
machine.
Kontena Master
Kontena Master is orchestrating the
entire Kontena system. It provides
APIs used by Kontena CLI, Web UI and
third party integrations.
Kontena Master may be installed as
high-availability setup if needed.

19. All Batteries Included!
Built-In Image Registry
Sometimes projects can not use publicly hosted
container image registries like DockerHub.
Kontena comes with built-in container image
registry providing private and secure solution.
Built-In VPN Access
All containers are run inside a virtual private
network by default. Nothing is exposed to
Internet unless explicitly defined. With
Kontena’s built-in VPN access developers can
securely access those resources.
Built-In Load Balancer
Kontena comes with built-in load balancer.
Based on Haproxy. It features fully automatic,
zero-downtime operation due to deep
integration with Kontena’s service discovery and
orchestration technology.
Aggregated Stats & Logs
Kontena provides real-time log and statistics
streams containers. The streams may be
grouped and aggregated to produce service level
streams. This allows easy viewing of logs and
statistics for your application CPU, memory, disk
and network usage.
User Management with Audit Trail
All events and actions performed through
Kontena CLI or APIs are logged into audit trail.
Combined with users and access control, the
audit trail support makes Kontena a reliable and
secure solution for any enterprise deployments.
Built-In Secrets Management
When your application requires access to APIs or
databases, you'll often need to use secrets such
as passwords and access tokens for
authenticating the access. Kontena Vault is a
secure key/value storage that can be used to
manage secrets in Kontena.

20. Works on any infrastructure!
Kontena works on any public cloud or in your own private datacenter; hybrid environment,
virtualized or bare metal.

21. We have 1k+ members in 35 Meetup groups globally
The Community Effort

22. Summary about Kontena Project
• The Kontena platform development started in the beginning of
2015. It’s almost 2 years now!
• Over the past 2 years we have
• Written nearly 50K lines of code
• Released 78 releases
• Had 1991 commits from 30 contributors
• Closed 309 issues
• Processed feedback from hundreds of end users and projects depending on
Kontena
Please use this info as reference when thinking if you should start
creating your own container platform J

23. Off-the-Shelf
Container
Platforms

25. So, how to choose the right platform?
• There is no single platform that everybody
should be using
• All of the platforms and solutions are still
“in progress”
• Don’t trust any of the advertised features!
• Don’t get carried away by hype!
• Only way to choose the right platform is
to try them out
• While testing, try to think what is the total
cost of ownership for that platform!
Happy platform hunting!

26. Thank You!
info@kontena.io
@kontenainc
ſ slack.kontena.io
github.com/kontena/kontena
meetup.com/pro/kontena
www.kontena.io