GASP! My Container Cluster Just Went Down and I Don’t Know Why!
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-09-21

GASP! My Container Cluster Just Went Down and I Don’t Know Why! - Kamalakannan Muralidharan, PayPal & Ranga Rajagopalan, Avi Networks

Traffic management in a container environment, especially for microservices involves more than just load balancing. Load balancing traffic from client to core service (north-south) along with inter-service and inter-cluster interactions (east-west) is key.

There are different ways of load balancing methods in a container architecture:
North-south (Fronting LB)
East-West (Client side)

The primary challenges with load balancing in a dynamic environment (like cluster manager environment) are the consequences of a container outage. 
How do I do IP per POD vs Port Mapping?
How can I enforce dynamic registration as part of the container lifecycle?

About 

Kamalakannan Muralidharan
PayPal
Head of Product Marketing
Kamalakannan Muralidharan, Sr. Member of Technical Staff, PayPal
I have 13 years of experience in Software Engineering. We have been using Mesos and its framework in our company for the past 3 years. I have presented about OSGi in JavaOne and also about Docker and distributed cluster managers in internal talks. I am currently building a massive distributed PaaS using Mesos for our hybrid cloud strategy.

Ranga Rajagopalan
Avi Networks
CTO
Ranga Rajagopalan, CTO, Avi Networks
Over the last 15 years prior to co-founding Avi Networks, Ranga has been an architect and developer of several high-performance distributed operating systems as well as networking and storage data center products. Before his current role as CTO, he was the Senior Director at Cisco, responsible for platform software on the Nexus 7000 product line.