"They have Kubernetes running on research vessels: on ships, out on the open sea." Well this was a use case I never heard before!
Kubernetes clusters out at open sea. Rob Erez(@no_erez), principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, shares how on premise ‘on prem’ can get:
"When we talk about small computers, some of our customers have Kubernetes clusters basically in their point of sale systems. So they have hundreds and hundreds of stores and they have little Kubernetes clusters that’re essentially running them, and each one's independent.
I was talking to one of our customers just the other day at KubeCon, they've got Kubernetes clusters running on research vessels and those research vessels. As in ships on the ocean.
I'm not going to pretend to know exactly what they're doing on those ships. We didn't quite get into that detail, but they've got Kubernetes clusters out in the open sea, which is apt given Kubernetes name.
The problems they run into though are a little bit different. So for them, those boats might be out at sea, weeks, months, at a time. So when you want to do a deployment, the ship's not available. When that ship comes back into port, it needs to get the update. So they'd be talking through how you'd achieve this and how that process would work."
