How H-E-B Curbside Adopted Linkerd During a Pandemic
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual · on Thursday, 2020-11-19· at 17:40· Intrado Virtual Event Platform,·
summary
H-E-B moves a curbside monolith to Kubernetes and adopts Linkerd to get observability, retries/timeouts, and mTLS fast enough for COVID demand. Integration uses Helm and Terraform, a template service repo plus springfox-to-service-profile tooling so meshing is a two-line flip; canaries run with Flagger. Production checks run via a 14-line health-check cron, and chaos tests show traffic still flows when the injector or control plane is down and when services are scaled to hundreds of pods. Rollout reaches first store in July and reduces big‑bang deploys.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:16Agenda
- 0:50About HEB
- 1:46Challenges
- 3:16Priorities
- 3:48Timeline
- 4:19Chaos Engineering
- 5:19Challenges Ahead
- 6:38Learning New Tools
- 7:33Not For Everyone
- 9:43Hidden Gems
- 10:23Production
- 11:46Service Profiles
- 13:40New Tools
- 15:15Build Confidence
- 18:55Recap
- 19:30Outro
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