At the Cloud Builders "Containers (Docker) in the Cloud" meetup on April 16 2015, Stephen Voorhees & Olivier Paugam present the challenges that drove the motivation to evaluate and eventually adopt container technology in the Autodesk Cloud Platform. They also introduce Ochopod, a new open source project from Autodesk Cloud that enables automatic container orchestration over Apache Mesos (and soon Kubernetes).

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CONTAINERS @ AUTODESK
THE MOTIVATIONS & OUR SOLUTION
STEPHEN VOORHEES – DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING – stephen.voorhees@autodesk.com
OLIVIER PAUGAM – SOFTWARE ARCHITECT – olivier.paugam@autodesk.com

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WHAT DO WE DO?
Access
Control
Identity ActivitiesStorage SearchMetering Data Mgmt
Entitlements
Event
Services
Render
Gallery
Derivative
Service
f(x)
d
dx …
Jobs /
Workers
Viewing
Delta
Encoding SharingObject Store
Big Data
Services
Machine
LearningMetadata
Materials
Commenting
Containers
Autodesk Cloud Platform
API Mgmt
Developer
Portal

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THE CHALLENGE…
. our tech stack is getting complicated
. need more standards in place
. costs are ever increasing
. hybrid datacenters on horizon

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THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY!
… and we can’t bear to do more chef

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bee do, I think
containers can
help…

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BUT HOW CAN CONTAINERS HELP?
. clean abstraction of apps and infra
. simple model of reuse
. run (almost) anywhere
. rapid and simple deployment

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HOLD UP, WHAT IS A CONTAINER?!
VIRTUAL MACHINE CONTAINER

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WHY IS OUR OPS TEAM EXCITED
ABOUT CONTAINERS?
. homogeneous environments
. improved resource allocation
. potential for reduced cost
. easier capacity planning
. simplified management
woot

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WHY DO OUR DEVELOPERS LOVE
CONTAINERS?
. they can focus on building apps
. shared, reusable components
. no tool chain or os lock in
. wicked fast deployments
. datacenter abstraction
groovy

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WE CARE…
. tech stack standardization
. rallying point for devops
. simplify continuous deployment
. datacenter provider agnostic

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ENOUGH PROPAGANDA…
…SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!

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OK, CONTAINERS ARE PRETTY EASY, BUT
HOW DO YOU MAKE THEM REAL
. resource management
. orchestration & configuration
. tools

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resource management
. infra hosts homogeneous clusters of hosts
. mesos+marathon allocate containers
. chef used to setup mesos infra
. environments are all equal
. tools provide visibility

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orchestration & configuration
This is the hard part!
. make your containers into a service
. need to cross configure & cluster containers
. no good open source alternatives
We need a way to
make it easier!

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INTRODUCING OCHOPOD
…automatic container orchestration over Apache Mesos
. runs on every container
. orchestrates container config
. simple script describes topology
. config stored in zookeeper
open source!
http://github.com/autodesk-cloud/ochopod

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tools
. seamless integration into release pipeline, jenkins
. mesos+marathon tools to visualize environments
. ocho cli for inspecting your running service
. dev portal, git push on the horizon…

18. …THAT’S SOME HEAVY STUFF! PROVE IT!

19. I HAVE A DEMO OF
REAL SOFTWARE TO
PROVE IT.
WARNING: THIS IS NOT A PROTOTYPE. SO STAND BACK.

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SHAMELESS
PLUG…
WE ARE HIRING!
. senior software engineers
. senior engineering manager
Join us to work on the Autodesk Cloud Platform!
contact: stephen.voorhees@autodesk.com