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Tips Tricks and Tools for Running Containers like a Pro

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Shannon WilliamsCo-Founder/VP Marketing @smw355

Darren ShepherdCo-Founder/Chief Architect @ibuildthecloudFreenode: darren0

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Brandon Papworth Director of WebDom & Tom @brandonpapworth

Bill MaxwellSr. Devops LeadRancher Labs @cloudnautique

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First things first…

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There are rules for a meetup!• We won’t be done on time• Questions are always welcome• There are no bad questions• Demo, then demo some more• Things will break, be patient

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Agenda• Building Your Rancher Tool Box – Shannon• Demo: Prometheus, Janitor & Web hooks– Darren• Managing Secrets with Vault – Bill • Demo: Vault – Bill • User Story: Rancher at Dom & Tom – Brandon• Demo – Brandon• Latest Rancher Update – Darren

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Building a Container Service

Container Service

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How to deploy a container service

Container Service

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App Catalog

Orchestration

Scheduling

Monitoring

Access Control

Network

Storage

Distributed DB

Registry

Engine

Security

Helm, …

Compose, Kubernetes, Marathon,

Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos, …

cAdvisor, Sysdig, Datadog, …

LDAP, AD, GitHub, …

DockerHub, Quay.io, …

Docker, Rkt, …

Notary, Vault, …

VXLAN, IPSEC, HAProxy, …

Ceph, Gluster, Swift, …

Etcd, Consul, MongoDB, …

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Rancher OverviewMicroservice Catalog

AD/LDAP

Leverage existing tools:- CI/CD- Code

Repository- Monitoring

Environment 1 Environment N…Network Services Storage Services

Container Orchestration and SchedulingUser Mgmt Ops Mgmt

Environment 2

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Tips, Tricks and Tools for Running Containers Like a Pro

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Building your container tool box

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Registry - Code Repository - CI/CD – Logging – Monitoring – Storage – Data Services

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Building Rancher Tools• Design extension to run as a

container• Leverage API & Metadata services• Distribute through the catalog• Provide scheduling and

configuration options

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Four tools we’re demoing today

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Scale-up, Scale-down, Upgrade & Redploy with Cowbell

• Container service that exposes a web hook and talks to the Rancher API and CLI

• Can be integrated with CI/CD or other systems

• Deployed from the catalog into each environment

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Building Dashboards with Prometheus

• Prometheus originally created by SoundCloud

• Catalog deployment created by the team at Infinity Works and NHS in the UK  

• Integrated with Rancher API

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Building Dashboards with Prometheus

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Cleaning up environments with Janitor

• Based on Meltwater/Docker-Cleanup

• Service developed by Steve Shipway at the University of Auckland

• Identifies Docker images no longer in use, and removes them from hosts.

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Managing secrets with Vault

• Developed by Hashicorp• Includes secret storage, key

rotation and audit logging• Initial Vault catalog item will be

available in the next week

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Latest Rancher Enhancements

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1.0.1• Rancher Multi-node Simplification

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1.1-dev1 (releasing next week)• Experimental Mesos support• F5 Load balancer integration• Customizable Docker Machine UI

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Getting StartedRancher and RancherOS are in GitHub – Get Involved!

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http://github.com/rancher

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New eBook: Building a CI/CD Pipeline with Docker & Rancher

http://info.rancher.com/cicd-with-docker-ebook

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