running Zookeeper as a service on top of google app engine

[Alex Ausch <al...@gmail.com>]

hey all,

i've been playing with a zookeeper instance, set up on top of a kubernettes
cluster in google app engine, and i'm wondering if anyone else has spun up
and maintained a solid prod deploy there, and what it looks like

for context, my initial experiments have been riffs on this blog post:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/taming-the-herd-using-Zookeeper-and-Exhibitor-on-Google-Container-Engine.html

thanks,

~ alex

Re: running Zookeeper as a service on top of google app engine

[al...@alastair-munro.com]

On 2017-10-19 21:51, Alex Ausch wrote:
> hey all,
> 
> i've been playing with a zookeeper instance, set up on top of a 
> kubernettes
> cluster in google app engine, and i'm wondering if anyone else has spun 
> up
> and maintained a solid prod deploy there, and what it looks like
> 
> for context, my initial experiments have been riffs on this blog post:
> 
> https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/taming-the-herd-using-Zookeeper-and-Exhibitor-on-Google-Container-Engine.html
> 
> thanks,
> 
> ~ alex

Hi Alex,

I am running it on openshift which is kubernetes with lots of additional 
features from Redhat. We are using it for kafka and we are using the 
dynamic reconfiguration feature in 3.5.x, which works really nice. The 
trick is to use k8s statefulsets. You might have to unravel the 
openshift templates; in effect its just parameterized k8s metadata. 
Docker images, etc, here: 
https://github.com/spicysomtam/openshift-kafka/tree/master/images/zookeeper.

Alastair Munro
Devops Engineer