QUARKC Initiative
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The document outlines a project aimed at deploying Qlik Sense on a small and efficient Kubernetes cluster, known as Quarkc, which focuses on minimizing costs while maximizing performance. It highlights the motivations for transitioning from traditional Windows environments to Kubernetes, detailing planned benchmarks and comparisons between various hardware setups. The project will produce comprehensive guides on deployments, scaling, and performance evaluations of Qlik Sense on Kubernetes compared to existing platforms.
QUARKC Initiative
- 2. DISCLAIMER • We will be working on this project on our free time (more than 200h commitment) and there is no sponsoring from Qlik or our own company. I'm a Qlik Luminary and we are Qlik experts, passionate about technology and want to share our knowledge to rest of the world. • We are not indenting to make money out of this but this is just covering the cost of the Hardware necessary to work on this • This is not replacing any consulting engagement you may have with your preferred vendor or Qlik • These guidelines you will get in exchange should not replace any Kubernetes Admin/Expert requirement to succeed • You will not get guidelines about what is Qlik Sense but details about QSEoK • Audience : People knowing and already running Qlik Sense.
- 3. PROJECT NAME • A quark (/kwɔːrk, kwɑːrk/) is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. • A quarkc is a type of elementary architecture and a fundamental constituent of analytics platform. • Qlik Undersized Archietcture Running on Kubernetes Cluster
- 4. MISSION STATEMENT " The only one initiative challenging the norm through innovation by running QlikSense Enterprise on the world’s smallest most powerful Kubernetes Cluster powered by Intel Next Unit of Computing " Kubernetes Small Form Factor Low-Power Powerful Low Cost High Cost Windows High Class CPU in onPem DC High Class CPU on AWS Cloud vs
- 5. WHY THIS INITIATIVE ? • Many companies started their Qlik Journey years ago with deployment on Premise or Cloud with Windows and Virtualization. Some of us see real potential on moving to Kubernetes and Containerization architecture to start new deployment or migrate existing platform onto it. • What does it mean exactly moving to Kubernetes when your support organization is Windows Ready only and what are the benefits in terms of stability and scalability ? What is the value and efficiency of Kubernetes Container vs Windows Virtual Servers ? • This project will also show the behavior, performance and scalability of Qlik Sense Enterprise on Kubernetes with Hardware like Pentium and Core i7 CPU vs High class Xeon Gold and Platinum recommended for onPrem are AWS EC2 R5 instances.
- 6. THE BIRTH OF QUARKC-0 To really minimize the overall cost we looked at how we could setup Qlik Sense on Kubernetes by building a cluster with following focus : Small Form factor, Powerful enough, Minimum of 8GB Memory per node, Low Power consumption. We came with the idea of making QUARKC-0 (on the picture). This cluster has 4 nodes of Pentium N4200 Low Power Consumption of 6W, a Total of 32GB of RAM and a size of 3.3x3.5 inches per board.
- 8. TARGET FOR QUARKC-1 QUARKC-1 24 Cores HT – 256GB RAM 4x Intel Core i7-10710U 4.6 inch 5.9inch 4.4inch 4.6 inchThe plan is to fund, build and compare with QUARKC-1 which will be 4 nodes of Core i7- 10710U (Latest Generation) with 64GB per node and Power consumption of 15W. QUARKC-1 will be 4x compute performance of QUARKC-0 with a total of 256GB of RAM (size of board 4x4 inches). According to CPU benchmarks, 4x i7-10710U (6 Cores each) should be 50% better than Xeon Platinum 8175 (24 Cores) used on AWS EC2 R5.
- 9. DELIVERABLES 1. A comprehensive guide on How to deploy Qlik Sense on Kubernetes but also how to setup the cluster and details about scaling horizontally with adding new K8s nodes. Containerization is offering better efficiency and isolation from the host. So this can offer multiple QS sites on same HW/deployment. This will also contain benchmark and Performance details comparing QUARKC-0 and QUARKC- 1. 2. A comparison of Qlik Sense on Kubernetes deployments on Premise vs Cloud options. This will also contain benchmark and Performance details comparing QUARKC with Cloud deployment. 3. A comparison of Qlik Sense on Kubernetes vs Windows. A comprehensive guide highlighting all similarities, differences, advantages and challenges of Qlik Sense on Kubernetes vs Windows. This will also contain benchmark and Performance details comparing QUARKC with Windows deployment.
- 10. Sponsors Donors QUARKC Team Pierre-Louis Usselmann Reshma Madithati Animesh Kumar Chinmaya Dash Kirankumar Sistu Katarzyna Buchacz Andrei Konoplyastyy Jack Adler Patrick Lafont Frederic Hamm Alexandre Bole Nicolas Sittler Meryll Blanchet Guillaume Kieffer Ciprian Viziteu Pierre-Louis Usselmann pl.usselmann@gmail.com Innovation Lead and Qlik Luminary Ciprian Viziteu viziteu.ciprian@gmail.com Qlik Expert (Project Delivery) Chinmaya Dash chinmayadash.dash76@gmail.com Qlik Expert (Features) Animesh Kumar animesh.kumar.bo@gmail.com Qlik Expert (Scalability) Vishal Bandela vishalbandela@gmail.com Kubernetes Expert, AWS Certified
- 11. THANK YOU “Ready to experience the power of small and challenge Big Windows Clusters, High class CPU and AWS Cloud ? “