March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 52m
English
We managed to build a system that scales (and de-scales) our worker nodes automatically. Even though we might need to extend alerts to other types of metrics, the system we created is already good as it is. Kind of... The problem is that new nodes are empty. They do not host any services until we deploy new ones if we updated some of those that are already running inside our cluster. That, in itself, is not a problem if we deploy new releases to production often.
Let's say that, on average, we deploy a new release every hour. That would mean that our newly added nodes will be empty only for a short while. Our deployment pipelines will re-balance the cluster. But, what happens if we do not deploy any ...