At the Google GCP Next conference last week in San Francisco, the company demonstrated how it was possible with Kubernetes to update a heavily used distributed application while keeping that app running.
For a Kubernetes 1.2 on-stage demo, Greg DeMichillie, director of program management for Google Cloud Platform spun up a service and then used load testing software to dispatch 20,000 requests-per-second to the service. “Now if I did this demo 18 months ago, this would have been considered an amazing thing — who would have had the ability to run services at this scale? Now, it’s my ‘Hello World,’” DeMichillie said.
The exercise was set to show off the latest capability of Kubernetes — to show how the software could update a service with zero downtime.
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