Pods on Steroids - A Case Study of Migrating Flipkart.com to Kubernetes on Bare Metal

Explore the journey of migrating Flipkart.com, India's largest e-commerce platform, from a Qemu-based Virtual Machine stack to Kubernetes on bare metal in this 27-minute conference talk. Gain insights into the challenges and benefits of managing one of the region's largest Kubernetes clusters, covering 350,000 cores, 30,000 pods, and 3,000 services. Learn how this transition significantly reduced application tail latencies and achieved substantial compute core savings. Discover valuable lessons from the process of migrating thousands of mission-critical services and operating large-scale resilient clusters, providing a comprehensive case study for organizations considering similar migrations.

Pods on Steroids - A Case Study of Migrating Flipkart.com to K8s on... Neeraj Bisht & Livingstone SE