HashiCorp at JUST EAT

ANDREW BROWN - Senior Platform Engineer

Overview

Core Platform - Using Consul & Packer

Acquired Platforms - Terraform & Vagrant

• The world’s leading digital marketplace for takeaway food delivery• Operate in 13 markets around the globe • Platform peak ~ 2,500 orders per minute

JUST EAT

TECHNOLOGY

• Migrated to AWS (Amazon Web Services) 4 years ago• Run hundreds of Instances at peak - daily scaling to match demand• Heavily utilise CloudFormation

AWS - Setup

• Multiple AWS Accounts

• QA Daily Launch and Teardown

• On average an instance less than 3 days old

Before Consul…..CONFIGURATION

• JSON file bundled with application package

• Deployment step to “Generate Config”

SETTINGS

• Feature settingsapi • key/values stored in DynamoDB

Before Consul…..

SERVICE DISCOVERY?

• DNS -> Endpoint of the Elastic Load Balancer• Hard-coded Ips

Consul Setup● Consul Cluster per environment

● JSON config stored in GitHub in templated format

● Generator run via TeamCity

● Config committed to “Generated Repository”

After Consul….

• Instance joins the Consul Cluster during Deployment

• Service registered on consul cluster

• Consul-Template generates config files

Benefits of Consul• No need to cycle instances (seconds vs minutes)

• PR to Github to change and validate Config

• Consistent Config

• UI - Platform and Health Overview

Consul MetaData• Recently launched a “Platform Consul Cluster”

• MetaData Generated using same mechanism as Features

• Powering other tools used in Just Eat

Finally…. PackerBAKED AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

• All Dependencies Pre-installed• CloudFormation reduced (removed 500 lines of json)• Significantly reduced deployment time (Linux and Windows)

• AMI ID pushed to Consul - Config now stores “AMI Name”

HashiCorp atAcquired Platforms

ALBERTO BLANCO - Platform Developer

What we do?

Yes, correct! we acquire platforms

And we look after them too...

So we do...

What we value the most of Terraform

● Abstraction● Infrastructure versioning● A common language● Lifecycle● Dependency resolution

Starting for scratch

The three S’s

Stability

Scalability

Security

And also we want to keep releasing!And monitor it properly!

to the cloud!

A reproducible deployment pipeline

As much as cloud agnostic as we can

Using Terraform as the base

How we deal with it

Consul for config...and tfstate files

How we deal with it

On top of the base we put the rest

How we deal with it

On top of the base we put the rest

How we deal with it

On top of the base we put the rest

Here our tools...

● Terraform, the base● Ansible for provisioning● Capistrano for some deployments● Consul for configs and tfstate● Vagrant for local development● Jenkins for orchestration

More HashiCorp to come for us...

● Packer for sharing artifacts and images between providers

● Vault for secrets

Any questions?

We are hiring!Come talk to us.

Thank you