Human scale deployments

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Lars is big on Elixir. Think apps that scale really well, tend to be monolithic, and have one of the most mature deployment models: self-contained releases & built-in hot code reloading. In episode 7, Gerhard talked to Lars about “Why Kubernetes”. There is a follow-up YouTube stream that showed how to automate deploys for an Elixir app using K3s & ArgoCD.

More than a year later, how does Lars think about running applications in production? What does simple & straightforward mean to him? Gerhard’s favourite: what is “human scale deployments”?

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Featuring:

• Lars Wikman – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• 🎧 shipit.show/7 - Why Kubernetes?
• 🎬 k3s & ArgoCD with Elixir
• 📝 Deploying with K3s & ArgoCD
• 📝 Fundamentals & deployment

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:01:21)

3. K8s cloud native landscape (00:03:21)

4. Lars' deployment artifact (00:13:57)

5. Things going wrong (00:17:44)

6. Fly.io (00:32:17)

7. How you set up manual systems (00:38:58)

8. Key takeaway (00:51:58)

9. Outro (00:52:53)