How Lombard Odier Deployed Vertical Pod Autoscaler to Increase Resource Usage Efficiency

Explore how Lombard Odier deployed Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) to optimize resource usage efficiency in this informative conference talk. Gain insights into container orchestration, resource management tools, and the challenges of scaling deployments. Learn about cgroups, resource limitations, and Kubernetes features for maximizing infrastructure utilization. Discover the speaker's review of available mechanisms, their mapping at orchestrator and runtime levels, and the implementation of VPA for large-scale resource tuning. Benefit from Lombard Odier's lessons learned, current deployment status, and future directions. Delve into topics such as banking platforms, cluster management, container resources, request assessment, simulation results, VPA examples, use cases, and valuable tools and resources for optimizing your own container deployments.

Intro
Lombard Odier Group
Banking Platform
Lombard Odier Clusters
Resources on a container
The right balance
Assessing the requests?
Simulation results
Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)
Example
Use Cases
Where are we?
Lessons Learned
Tools and Resources