Building for Operability: Stateful Applications in Containers with the Autopilot Pattern - Philly ETE 2017

Explore the challenges and solutions of deploying stateful applications in containers through this comprehensive conference talk. Dive into the Autopilot Pattern, a powerful design concept that addresses operational constraints in container frameworks. Learn how to build intelligent architectures that maximize developer flexibility and minimize human intervention by moving lifecycle event handling responsibilities into the application. Discover how to apply the Autopilot Pattern to classic legacy stateful application architectures, covering topics such as replication bootstrapping, automated fail-over, and backups without custom orchestration. Gain insights into solving problems like service discovery, load balancing, and automated fail-over in containerized environments. Explore the concept of immutable deployments, minimal overhead, and the unit of deployment in container ecosystems. Understand the challenges of data persistence in containers and learn about solutions like host volumes and infrastructure-backed discovery bootstrap. Delve into the guarantees and considerations for asynchronous replication, failover scenarios, and consistency between nodes. Empower development teams to operationalize their applications effectively in containerized environments.