Raul Benencia, ThousandEyes, part of Cisco
The cloud-native ecosystem has evolved. Infrastructures self-heal. Features rollout seamlessly. Rollbacks happen automatically. Speed, quality, cost - all optimized. But you're in a different boat: you're dealing with an outdated legacy system and a migration is essential to stay in the game.
Embark with us as we tackled this challenge, moving from scavenged servers to a global Kubernetes infrastructure. Our path sailed the complexities of modernizing legacy systems, managing a baremetal Kubernetes cluster, migrating it to self-managed Kubernetes cluster in the cloud, and migrating it once again to a managed installation using a service mesh. We faced tough trade-offs and learned to balance resources with operational efficiency. Now, as we reflect on our journey, we're left with valuable insights and a compelling narrative. A narrative that promises to resonate with all SREs facing similar challenges, as we continue to evolve in this rapidly changing ecosystem.
Raul Benencia, ThousandEyes, part of Cisco
Hailing from Argentina and now living in San Francisco, Raul Benencia has navigated a dynamic 15-year tech journey, from system and network administration, to operating systems development, to security engineering. He's currently an SRE Technical Leader at ThousandEyes, part of Cisco, where he has assumed a myriad of roles and is currently leading its Kubernetes and containers strategy. Off duty, he immerses himself in compelling books, contributes to the Debian project, and nimbly M-x's through Emacs.
author = {Raul Benencia},
title = {Navigating the Kubernetes Odyssey: Lessons from Early Adoption and Sustained Modernization},
year = {2024},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}
