Docker in production: reality, not hype (OSCON 2015)

Reality, Not Hype
Docker in Production

@bridgetkromhout
Bridget Kromhout
@bridgetkromhout
bridgetkromhout.com
Operations Engineer
@arresteddevops
@devopsdays

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DramaFever.
com
Streaming international
content starting in 2009
Docker in production since
October 2013

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docclub.com since Fall 2014

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shudder.com launched Summer 2015

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15K 70 15 20M
Peak load: tens of thousands of requests per second
Traffic variance: swings 10-20x throughout the week

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autoscaling in AWS
streaming delivery via Akamai

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Architecture
Python/Django
Upstreams routed via nginx
Go microservices
state in RDS, DynamoDB,
Elasticache
API endpoints for native clients
Celery/SQS for async tasks

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consistent development repeatable deployment
Why Docker?

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one year ago...
Vagrant for local development
chef-solo provisioner
17 minutes to install everything

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images built on jenkins
mysql image built with fixtures
can run master or qa image (or
even prod)
can build new local images
from Dockerfiles
a year of boot2docker

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docker in production: in theory

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docker in production: in practice

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Distributed private S3-backed
Docker registry:
registry container on each ec2
instance
more effective scaling
Post by Tim Gross: http://0x74696d.com/posts/host-
local-docker-registry/

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docker options
# goes in /etc/default/docker to control docker's
upstart
DOCKER_OPTS="--graph=/mnt/docker --insecure-
registry=localhost-alias.com:5000"
localhost-alias.com in DNS with A record to 127.0.0.1
OS X /etc/hosts: use the boot2docker host-only
network IP

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registry upstart
docker pull public_registry_image
docker run -p 5000:5000 --name registry
-v /etc/docker-reg:/registry-conf
-e DOCKER_REGISTRY_CONFIG=/registry-conf/config.yml
public_registry_image

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config.yml
s3_region: us-east-1
s3_access_key: <aws-accesskey>
s3_secret_key: <aws-secretkey>
s3_bucket: <bucketname>
standalone: true
storage: s3
storage_path: /registry

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docker run
-d
-p 5000:5000
--name docker-reg
-v ${DFHOME}:${DFHOME}
-e DOCKER_REGISTRY_CONFIG=${DFHOME}/config/registry/config.yml
public_registry_image
private registry for
dev

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S3 requires clock sync
$ docker pull local-repo-alias.com:5000/mysql
Pulling repository local-repo-alias.com:5000/mysql
2014/11/24 19:44:31 HTTP code: 500
$ boot2docker ssh sudo date --set "$(env TZ=UTC date
'+%F %H:%M:%S')"

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Jenkins-driven image builds

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weekly base builds
FROM local-repo-alias.com:5000/www-base
● include infrequently-changing
dependencies
○ ubuntu packages
○ pip requirements
○ wheels
● other builds can start from these images
(so they’re faster):

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www-master build
sudo docker build -t="a12fbdc" .
sudo docker run -i -t -w /var/www -e DJANGO_TEST=1 --name
test.a12fbdc a12fbdc py.test -s
sudo docker tag a12fbdc local-repo-alias.com:5000/www:'dev'
sudo docker push local-repo-alias.com:5000/www:'dev'

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container-building containers
easier with statically
linked binaries
Go microservices
Android APK

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$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL
SIZE
local-repo-alias.com:5000/mysql dev b0dc5885f767 2 days ago 905.9 MB
local-repo-alias.com:5000/www dev 82cda604a4f1 2 days ago 1.092 GB
local-repo-alias.com:5000/micro local bed20dc84ea1 4 days ago 10.08 MB
google/golang 1.3 e3934c44b8e4 2 weeks ago 514.3 MB
public_registry_image 0.6.9 11299d377a9e 6 months ago 454.5 MB
scratch latest 511136ea3c5a 18 months ago 0 B
$
ever-smaller images

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a cautionary word on storage drivers

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2014/10/30 21:35:31 Error getting container init rootfs
b528d54a0458a8cd8a798309930adb45cb5e1a7430e98
1e0f3108f86386aab67 from driver devicemapper: open
/dev/mapper/docker-9:127-14024705-
b528d54a0458a8cd8a798309930adb45cb5e1a7430e98
1e0f3108f86386aab67-init: no such file or directory
make: *** [build-django] Error 1
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
breaking builds

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useful for unattended
base builds, but...
...seeing this in Slack got old

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DOCKER_OPTS="--graph=/mnt/docker
--insecure-registry=local-repo-
alias.com:5000 --storage-
driver=aufs"
replace storage driver for jenkins instance

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bash 'install kernel extras for
aufs' do
code <<-EOH
apt-get -y install linux-image-
extra-$(uname -r)
EOH
end
ubuntu 14.04: aufs in kernel extras

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(yes, modulo what’s available for your kernel)

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for persistent instances
# remove stopped containers
@daily docker rm `docker ps -aq`
# remove images tagged "none"
@daily docker rmi `sudo docker images | grep
none | awk -F' +' '{print $3}'`

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deploys
using fabric
tag for staging
tag for prod
out of ELB
restart upstart
back in ELB

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Autoscaling
Packer
AMI
EC2 Instances
Jenkins
GitHub
Chef
AMI factory

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#!/bin/bash
cat <<EOF > /etc/init/django.conf
description "Run Django containers for www"
start on started docker-reg
stop on runlevel [!2345] or stopped docker
respawn limit 5 30
[...]
replacing 100s of lines of userdata...

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...with a chef-client run & packer build.
#!/bin/bash
# upstart configs are now created by chef
rm /etc/chef/client.pem
mkdir -p /var/log/chef
chef-client -r 'role[rolename]' -E
'environment' -L /var/log/chef/chef-client.
log

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upstart config
docker run
-e DJANGO_ENVIRON=PROD
-e HAPROXY=df/haproxy-prod.cfg
-p 8000:8000
-v /var/log/containers:/var/log
--name django
localhost-alias.com:5000/www:prod
/var/www/bin/start-django

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docker run
<% if @docker_rm == true -%>
--rm
<% end %>
<% @docker_env.each do |k, v| -%>
-e <%= k %>=<%= v %>
<% end %>
<% @docker_port.each do |p| -%>
-p <%= p %>
<% end %>
upstart template

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<% @docker_volume.each do |v| -%>
-v <%= v %>
<% end %>
--name <%= @application_name %>
localhost-alias.com:<%= @registry_port %>/<%=
@docker_image %>:<%= @docker_tag %>
<%= @docker_command %>
upstart template
(cont)

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using attributes
attribute :command, :kind_of => String, :required => true
attribute :env, :kind_of => Hash, :default => {}
attribute :port, :kind_of => Array, :default => []
attribute :volume, :kind_of => Array, :default =>
['/var/log/containers:/var/log']
attribute :rm, :kind_of => [TrueClass, FalseClass], :default => false
attribute :image, :kind_of => String, :required => true
attribute :tag, :kind_of => String, :required => true
attribute :type, :kind_of => String, :required => true
attribute :cron, :kind_of => [TrueClass, FalseClass], :default => false

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recipe using LWRP
base_docker node['www']['django']['name'] do
command node['www']['django']['command']
env node['www'][service]['django'][env]['env']
image node['www']['django']['image']
port node['www'][service]['django'][env]['port']
tag node['www'][service]['django'][env]['tag']
type node['www']['django']['type']
end

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packer for ami building
{
"type": "chef-client",
"server_url": "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/dramafever",
"run_list": [ "base::ami" ],
"validation_key_path": "{{user `chef_validation`}}",
"validation_client_name": "dramafever-validator",
"node_name": "packer-ami"
}

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packer run
$HOME/packer/packer build
-var "account_id=$AWS_ACCOUNT_ID"
-var "aws_access_key_id=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"
-var "aws_secret_key=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"
-var "x509_cert_path=$AWS_X509_CERT_PATH"
-var "x509_key_path=$AWS_X509_KEY_PATH"
-var "s3_bucket=bucketname"
-var "ami_name=$AMI_NAME"
-var "source_ami=$SOURCE_AMI"
-var "chef_validation=$CHEF_VAL"
-var "chef_client=$HOME/packer/client.rb"
-only=amazon-instance
$HOME/packer/prod.json

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limiting packer IAM permissions
"Action":[
"ec2:TerminateInstances",
"ec2:StopInstances",
"ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
"ec2:DetachVolume",
"ec2:DeleteVolume",
"ec2:ModifyImageAttribute"
],
"Effect":"Allow",
"Resource":"*",
"Condition":{
"StringEquals":{ "ec2:
ResourceTag/name":"Packer Builder"
}
}

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and now you have a new problem...

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container clustering
evaluating Mesos/Marathon
+/- autoscaling
+/- discovery

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obligatory container disaster
protip: does not represent reality
tl;dr: containers aren’t going to
solve all your problems…
...but they aren’t actually all that
hard to use, either.

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security
(we focus on host-level security, not isolation…
...and we don’t run arbitrary images from the internets.)

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logs
-v /var/log/containers:/var/log
<Input containers_in>
Module im_file
Recursive False
File '/var/log/containers/*.log'
Exec $FileName = file_name();
Exec $raw_event = $FileName + ' ' + $raw_event ;
Exec $Message = $raw_event ;
</Input>

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monitoring & alerting

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Docker in production:
honestly, it’s pretty awesome.

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Thank you!
(and we’re hiring!)
dramafever.com/company/careers.html

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