[Swlug] Docker, containers, oh my!

[Matt Willsher]

> On 21 Apr 2017, at 12:20, Neil Greenwood <gneel42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We're starting to use Docker in AWS (what they call ECS), in order to reduce our monthly spend with AWS. But we're finding problems with the ECS product still being quite immature - AWS support are responsive, but cannot always offer help other than "we're working on that feature". The basics work, but trying to co-ordinate multiple instances to scale the load and connecting different services running on different containers is troublesome.

I’ve heard similar with ECS. It’s AWS’s own special sauce, rather than using Kubernetes as GCE does.

> We started in a good place, since our product is already built on a micro-service architecture. The ECS offering is currently good enough for a wider proof-of-concept trial we're starting now, but we're seriously considering using Kubernetes in AWS (we're tied into AWS fairly tight) for the orchestration and scaling features.

Another vote for Kubernetes :) How have you found working with microservices? Has it added much overhead from an ops point of view? Do you think Kubernetes will add more overhead?

Matt