Tales from Lastminute.com Machine Room: Our Journey Towards a Full On-Premise Kubernetes
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A case study of lastminute.com migrating hundreds of microservices and a full business flow from a legacy platform to an on‑premises Kubernetes cluster. Covers their year‑long migration process, the end‑to‑end tech stack (developer-facing services, server provisioning and automation), and concrete lessons learned including failures, wrong assumptions and the operational ‘secret sauce’ used to achieve improved time‑to‑market and reliability.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:55A lot of issues
- 4:09Virtualization platform
- 8:22The return of NodePort
- 9:39Rear window on kubernetes
- 12:16The change... It's a kind of magic
- 20:26Zero downtime (1): graceful shutdown
- 21:32Zero downtime (2): graceful startup JobsExecutor.java
- 23:55nginx ingress controller problem
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