Keep Building Fresh - Shopify's Journey to Kubernetes

Explore Shopify's transition to Kubernetes in this 46-minute conference talk from SREcon18 Europe. Discover how the e-commerce giant evolved from being an early adopter of Docker in production to implementing a full-fledged orchestration layer. Learn about the challenges faced in moving from a traditional host-based infrastructure to a cloud-native one, and gain insights into the cluster tooling solutions developed by Shopify. Understand how the company automated various processes, from DNS management to certificate handling and complex cluster creations, using robust programming languages instead of scattered scripts. Delve into the benefits of Kubernetes' extensibility and how it provided Shopify with a new paradigm for building their infrastructure. This talk offers valuable lessons for organizations considering or undergoing similar transitions in their cloud infrastructure strategies.