Kubernetes Industry Use Case

Kubernetes- Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Problem

Ancestry, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, uses sophisticated engineering and technology to help everyone, everywhere discover the story of what led to them. The company has spent more than 30 years innovating and building products and technologies that at their core, result in real and emotional human responses. Ancestry currently serves more than 2.6 million paying subscribers, holds 20 billion historical records, 90 million family trees and more than four million people are in its AncestryDNA network, making it the largest consumer genomics DNA network in the world. The company’s popular website, ancestry.com, has been working with big data long before the term was popularized. The site was built on hundreds of services, technologies and a traditional deployment methodology. “It’s worked well for us in the past,” says Paul MacKay, software engineer and architect at Ancestry, “but had become quite cumbersome in its processing and is time-consuming. As a primarily online service, we are constantly looking for ways to accelerate to be more agile in delivering our solutions and our products.”

Solution-

The company is transitioning to cloud native infrastructure, using Docker containerization, Kubernetes orchestration and Prometheus for cluster monitoring.

Benefits of Kubernetes

• Reducing resource costs
• Ease-of-use and portability
• Scalability and modularity
• Impressive heritage
• Outstanding community and industry support
• Rich feature set and application support
• Ongoing development
• It’s portable and 100% open source

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