OpenPOWER Summit North America 2020

In this talk, we will look at the importance of Kubernetes Quality of Service, it’s journey & evolution. QoS is a Kubernetes concept that is leveraged by the Kubernetes scheduler to make scheduling decisions about pods onto nodes. How will this benefit you? We were compelled after seeing significant improvement by merely switching between different QoS Classes & eventually exploiting POWER Architecture thus application performance boosted when compared to other architectures, so what changes now? A "DevOps" scenario with a workload similar to a MEAN stack (Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node) / PostgreSQL was selected to purposefully demonstrate the POWER Architecture value proposition when compared with other architectures.

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This presentation is about how we transformed our Data Center from a vintage server center to a dynamic DevOps inspired Cloud. In the process we build an open source Linux distribution and provide a wide range of software that can run directly on multiple platforms to our customers that enable them to take advantage of a cloud based approach. The use of open source software enabled us to build and maintain a platform that has multiple CPU architectures, multiple CPU optimizations and get the maximum from the hardware and software. PowerEL, the Linux distribution, that enables us to get an optimized experience for the users while utilizing the maximum of the hardware. In addition to that we recompile optimized version of many open source components to be able to deliver software rapidly and conveniently.

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Microsoft Azure is the public cloud of choice for many organizations, but what about IBM Power systems? Now you can run your Power workloads on Microsoft Azure. In this session, join experts from Skytap to learn just how easy it can be. Skytap is a cloud service designed to natively run traditional applications, including AIX, IBM i, and Linux on Power, in the public cloud. In this session we will explore how Skytap partners with Microsoft to run Power in Azure, and we will discuss use cases from application development to key production workloads to disaster recovery.

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