Does Netflix use Docker and/or Kubernetes?

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vjhhgt

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vjhhgt
May 9, 2018 20 Comments

I am asking because I quietly don't see why people think k8 is so amazing. It reduces cost and allows for multicloud but otherwise you are tightly coupled to docker.

Since Netflix pioneers a lot of distributed system tooling, I am wondering if Netflix uses it and why?

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  • Netflix
    sliaverp

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    sliaverp
    Docker + Titus is what most teams use.
    May 9, 2018 0
  • Yelp
    wQAc57

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    wQAc57
    I don't think they do. See Titus. They literally built their own Kubernetes alternative.
    May 9, 2018 0
  • Netflix
    Nqac32

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    Nqac32
    Netflix has Titus for services that use containers, but most of our main services (particularly Java ones) use ec2 directly, managed by spinnaker. JavaScript services tend to be dockered, and those use Titus, but still managed using spinnaker.
    May 9, 2018 0
  • Netflix / Eng
    sfo8492

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     sfo8492
    Kubernetes is still not able to orchestrate the number of nodes we would want to have in a cluster. I think it'd be nice to be able to use a commonly-adopted tool like k8s, but our architecture/scale isn't common in terms of the majority of people who are adopting it.
    May 9, 2018 3
    • Amazon
      vjhhgt

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      vjhhgt
      OP
      K8s claims it can support 1000s of nodes, which is same number I see for Titus? Maybe Titus supported that scale first?

      I like Titus because it works nicely with other Netflix oss tools and also integrates well with AWS
      May 9, 2018
    • Hmm, I think unless someone actively uses it in production for an amount of time with 1000s of nodes; it’s a moot point. To give you an idea of scale, Twitter runs Mesos on a 30k node cluster with a very small team of engineers.
      Jun 6, 2018
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    vjhhgt

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    Anybody can tell me why orchestration is useful? Why is terraform/cloudformstion + ec2 not good enough?
    May 9, 2018 3