How to Ship Akka to Production

by Paweł Lipski plipski@virtuslab.com

Agenda

Docker
sbt (Scala built tool)
Continuous Integration
akka-serialization-helper
Kubernetes
Log collection
Observability

Docker in a nutshell

Imagine a virtual machine... but so lightweight you can instantly launch 10s of them on your laptop.

Plus you can configure what's installed on that machine with an intuitive language (Dockerfile).

Plus you can download ready machines with e.g. mysql/Nginx/Python/whatever readily installed

Docker in a nutshell

# build your own Docker image ("lightweight VM")

docker build -f my.Dockerfile -t foobar .
docker run foobar

# or, use ready stuff:
docker run nginx
docker run postgres
# etc.

Docker in a nutshell

FROM ubuntu:20.04

SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-e", "-o", "pipefail", "-u", "-x", "-c"]

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
ENV APT_GET_FLAGS="-y -q -o=Dpkg::Use-Pty=0"

# Let's move the instructions that do NOT depend on Python version to the top, for the sake of better use of build cache
RUN apt-get update $APT_GET_FLAGS
RUN apt-get install $APT_GET_FLAGS gnupg wget
RUN . /etc/os-release && echo "deb https://apt.repos.neuron.amazonaws.com ${VERSION_CODENAME} main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neuron.list
RUN wget -qO- https://apt.repos.neuron.amazonaws.com/GPG-PUB-KEY-AMAZON-AWS-NEURON.PUB | apt-key add -
RUN apt-get update $APT_GET_FLAGS
RUN apt-get install $APT_GET_FLAGS aws-neuron-tools
ENV PATH=$PATH:/opt/aws/neuron/bin

RUN groupadd --gid=1000 cinnaroll
RUN useradd --create-home --gid=1000 --uid=1000 --no-log-init foobar