How we run our applications is always evolving – Monoliths to microservices, migration to the cloud, containerisation, improved orchestration. Containers have become synonymous with microservices but they present a new set of challenges…

In this talk I will share some of our experiences and rationale behind early adoption of containerisation using an in-house written orchestration mechanism through to migrating to Kubernetes.

In this talk I will discuss:

• Our motivation for moving services into containers
• The pain that went along with very early adoption
• Which development approaches and practices help or hinder containerising a service
• How our development process changed when we started running in containers
• Best practices and lessons learnt around migrations