How to Use the TICK Stack, CoreOS, & Docker to Make Your SaaS Offering Better
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This document discusses the use of InfluxCloud, a time series database as a service, highlighting its architecture, monitoring solutions, and advantages for SaaS offerings. It emphasizes the importance of monitoring, deployment speed, and the use of CoreOS and Docker in building reliable systems. The document concludes with an encouragement to engage with the InfluxData community and explore their tools for improved cloud service management.
How to Use the TICK Stack, CoreOS, & Docker to Make Your SaaS Offering Better
- 1. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.1 11th July 2017 How to use the TICK Stack, CoreOS, & Docker to make your SaaS offering better
- 2. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.2 Agenda ¨ What is InfluxCloud ¨ Monitoring InfluxCloud ¨ Q&A
- 3. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.3 Introduction Gianluca Arbezzano, SRE Docker Captain, open source maniac and grower of fruit and vegetables. Email: gianluca@influxdb.com Twitter: @GianArb community.influxdata.com About me
- 4. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.4 © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.4 Founded in 2013 Delivering a modern open source platform for metrics and events Guiding principles: Developer Happiness Ease of Development + Scale Out Time to Value Results 70,000+ Active Servers 10,792 GitHub stars 300+ Customers (Cloud and Enterprise Offering) InfluxData Overview
- 5. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.5 What is InfluxCloud? ¨ Time Series Database as a Service ¨ A great use case to build better production ready tools ¨ A way to make money ¨ Monitoring is perfect as a third party service ¨ It needs to be up when your system is down ¨ If you are not making monitoring, it’s not your core business. Maintain it can be expensive
- 6. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.6 InfluxCloud Architecture - high level
- 7. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.7 Design consideration ¨ Speed to deploy a cluster needs to be reasonable. ¨ Machines needs to be able to communicate cluster membership. ¨ Cluster services can be restarted easily. ¨ Support team need to be confident about the system.
- 8. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.8 InfluxCloud Architecture - Cloud
- 9. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.9 InfluxCloud Architecture - focus on single cluster
- 10. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.10 InfluxCloud Architecture - focus on single instance
- 11. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.11 InfluxCloud Architecture - why CoreOS? ⠒ Designed to deploy containers ⠒ Auto update ⠒ To get all the flexibility we need to tread every cluster as special
- 12. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.12 Monitoring Data flow ⠒ Docker send all container logs to a central place ⠒ Every server has a Telegraf agent to get system information (CPU, memory, ios) ⠒ For service metrics, Influxdb, Kapacitor, etc. everything sends metrics to InfluxCloud for monitoring
- 13. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.13 Monitoring Data flow - Dashboard
- 14. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.14 Kapacitor for alerting
- 15. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.15 Kapacitor to build stats
- 16. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.16 Continuous delivery every time it’s possible
- 17. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.17 Don’t trust anyone! Monitor your monitor
- 18. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.18 What we learned ⠒ Build tools and utilities that restrict access to the AWS console (improve security, gain control, less human error) ⠒ Monitor to identify repetitive support tasks ⠒ People needs visibility on their cloud services ⠒ Metrics are everywhere. The number of alerts is a good metric. Now we build alerts on alerts ⠒ Proactive monitoring and proactive-automation
- 19. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.19 What now? InfluxCloud next-gen ⠒ Co-monitoring between InfluxData and customers ⠒ Chronograf and Kapacitor as basic add-ons in every new clusters ○ Welcome the Tick stack in the cloud! ⠒ The support team grows with the platform ○ Better tools, better UI, better everything! ⠒ Glue the API offered by all tools and productions that we are building/using to build the perfect experience
- 20. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.20 We are building trust. Co-monitoring
- 21. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.21 Conclusion
- 22. © 2017 InfluxData. All rights reserved.22 Next Steps Visit InfluxData.com Download the TICK Stack or try InfluxEnterprise Ask Questions on the community: community.influxdata.com