Before, it took at least a few days to get things sorted for a new application to deploy. A new application can be onboarded in about an hour using common tooling and CI/CD processes. "We have really enabled a platform thinking based approach to allowing applications to consume common tools. "We are getting to the place where we can one-click deploy an entire data center – the compute, network, Kubernetes, logging, monitoring and all the apps," says Linder. The team has added Prometheus for monitoring and Jaeger for tracing, to work alongside the company's existing tool sets: Zenoss, New Relic and ELK. The push to enable AWS as a data center option is underway and should be available by the end of 2018. "That is one of the biggest reasons why we picked Kubernetes." The team launched its first applications on Kubernetes in Sling TV's two internal data centers. "We are going to need to enable a hybrid cloud strategy including multiple public clouds and an on-premise VMWare multi data center environment to meet the needs of the business at some point, so getting that sort of abstraction was a real goal," he says.
Led by the belief that "the cloud native architectures and patterns really give us a lot of flexibility in meeting the needs of that sort of customer base," Linder partnered with Rancher Labs to build Sling TV's next-generation platform around Kubernetes. We really have to try to enable optionality and good customer experience at web scale." Solution Those are the variables of the equation that we have to try to solve. "In a lot of ways, we are working in the Wild West: The internet is what it is going to be, and if a customer's service does not work for whatever reason, they do not care why.
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The company has particular challenges: "We take live TV and distribute it over the internet out to a user's device that we do not control," says Linder. After just a year, "we were going through some growing pains of some of the legacy systems and trying to find the right architecture to enable our future," says Brad Linder, Sling TV's Cloud Native & Big Data Evangelist. Launched by DISH Network in 2015, Sling TV experienced great customer growth from the beginning.