Published inHootsuite Engineering·Dec 21, 2022Making Myself Obsolete — Implementing cluster autoscaling and node autoremediation at HootsuiteIt’s Wednesday at 2am and you’re startled awake by Pagerduty. You groggily login to your laptop and check the details of the alert, which indicates pods are stuck in pending on Kubernetes. You describe one of the pending pods and see “FailedScheduling, 0/23 nodes available”. Wonderful, you were woken up…Kubernetes15 min readKubernetes15 min read
Published inHootsuite Engineering·Jul 3, 2020Member-onlyUsing GitOps + ArgoCD To Ship Kubernetes Changes Faster at HootsuiteNearly four years ago, Hootsuite ran on a single monolithic codebase deployed on a fleet of AWS EC2 instances. Now, this functionality has been split up and delegated to over 120 services, which are deployed as containers on Kubernetes. Improving the tooling needed to build and deploy such a large…Gitops14 min readGitops14 min read
Published inHootsuite Engineering·Sep 23, 2019Three Years In — Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes at HootsuiteAt Hootsuite, over 120 microservices support the core dashboard product, of which the majority run on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This is an incredible change from three years ago, when the majority of the code at Hootsuite was running in a monolith codebase alongside a few microservices, all of…Kubernetes18 min readKubernetes18 min read
