DoK #55 How to optimise operations and life cycle management for containers? // Rajalakshmi Srinivasa

Modern applications are built to run on containerized infrastructure. Businesses are also migrating their existing apps from traditional to container deployments. In such a scenario, gaining end-to-end visibility of the complete Kubernetes container environment is an important challenge for the IT Operators/Administrators. In this talk, we will cover the following. - New-age business complexities. - How applications are moving from monolith to microservice architecture. - Operational challenges in monitoring the container architecture. - Strategies to efficiently manage the life cycle of the containers.

Rajalakshmi Srinivasan, or Raji as she’s fondly called, is a Director of Product Management at Zoho Corp. In her 21 years journey with the company, she has gained extensive experience ranging from database scaling and network monitoring to application performance tracking and end-user-experience management. She currently leads the application performance monitoring section in Site24x7 - a cloud-based all-in-one monitoring product from Zoho Corp. Her greatest asset though is the profound wisdom that she has gathered through the years on how to innovate and improvise on an idea, how to rally a team around it, and how to execute it to perfection consistently ahead of the competition. She has an engineering degree in Computer Science from The College Of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Chennai. She is a fitness freak. When she is not working, you can spot her running marathons, participating in clean-up drives, and traveling places along with her 3 little ones.