🔍 About the Review
Services running on Kubernetes with no traffic can be a painful source of wastage cloud cost wastage. This has become especially acute with the wide adoption of DevOps in the form of internal developer platforms within organisations which has allowed developers to deploy a workload with effectively zero friction.
Teams have tried to solve this with more oversight but a better solution is for the workloads to only be available (costing dollars) when in use. This leads us to the obvious solution of Scaling services down to zero replicas when not in use and this is exactly what Elasti attempts to solve in a kubernetes native environment.
Elasti allows for safe scaling of services to zero replicas in absence of traffic and scaling services from zero replicas when traffic arrives—with minimal resource footprint, dependencies or affecting the critical path in any significant way.
🚀 Key Features:
- ⚡ Supports both north-south (external) and east-west (internal) traffic within the cluster.
- 📌 Compatible with Kubernetes Deployments and Argo Rollouts as scaling targets.
- 🛠️ Can integrate seamlessly with 3rd party ingress controllers like nginx or service mesh like istio.
- 🔗 First-class integration with KEDA and HorizontalPodAutoscaler.
📌 GitHub repository
🔗 Elasti on GitHub
🔗 Documentation Website
Who should attend this review
Folks interested in Platform Engineering in general and cost savings in particular would find the session insightful. If you have been bitten by a random service spiking the AWS budget, and are looking for possible solutions, then this session should be very relatable.
Key takeaways
We will dive into the problem space and how Elasti solves for it. The talk will not go too much into the specific technical aspects of the implementation but will go over the architecture more broadly highlighting the points of comparison with other tools and the consequent choices made.
By the end of this talk, you will have an overview of the ecosystem around autoscaling & serverless in kubernetes. You will also hopefully gain an appreciation of how a distributed kubernetes controller based tool like elasti works along with the challenges involved in building it.
About the presenter
Shubham works as a Lead Platform Engineer at Truefoundry and has 9 years of experience working on the backend development and in the DevOps space.
Shubham likes to read history, play badminton or play games in his free time
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