Webinar

In-person event

How Meltwater migrated from the Amazon VPC CNI plugin to Cilium in K8s

Speaker of the webinar:

Federico Hernandez

Principal Engineer at Meltwater

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May 10, 2022

Location:

Duration:

45min

2 hours

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7:00 pm

CEST

PDT

12:00 PM

CDT

A migration from the Container Network Interface (CNI) in AWS VPC to Cilium, an open source plugin for Kubernetes, can feel like swapping the wheels of a running car. In this webinar Frederico and Simone from Meltwater will show you how they managed that challenge at Meltwater.

In this talk Federico Hernandez and Simone Sciarrati will dive into how they performed the migration of the networking component for Meltwater’s production Kubernetes clusters - from the AWS VPC CNI plugin to Cilium.

Their team develops a platform on top of Kubernetes that serves 40+ teams, running 3000+ deployments and 10000+ pods utilising more than 8000 cores and 18TB memory, powering a large part of the Meltwater product.

During this presentation Federico and Simone will:

Discuss the reasons behind the decision to migrate to Cilium
Go into the details of the live migration, the challenges we faced before, during and after (yes, not everything went A-OK)
Talk about the tooling they created to test the migration process and ensure the migration would be seamless

After a 30 minutes talk, there will be 15 minutes for Q&A. We’d like to encourage you to submit your questions in advance.

A recording of the webinar and related materials will be shared with webinar attendees afterwards.

Audience - who should join?

DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, System Engineers, Infrastructure Kubernetes Administrators, Technical Architects, Application Developers with an affinity with DevOps and Technical Management.