At Comcast we are building a geographically distributed system for streaming linear video to millions of cable customers. Our infrastructure consists of approximately 1,000 physical locations, within 27 regional networks. The project aims to conserve bandwidth across our cable backbones by encoding IPTV streams to QAM streams at the last mile. This eliminates duplicate video streams across our backbone while supporting our existing QAM infrastructure.
We have unique requirements and constraints which have benefited from the versatility of Kubernetes. In this talk Erik will walk you through how Comcast leveraged existing Kubernetes components, such as Third Party Resources and ConfigMap, as well as developed custom ones to build this system and how you can too.
Erik St. Martin is a Systems Architect at Comcast where he works on distributed systems and fail-over strategies for linear video streaming. He's a long time Go developer, Kubernetes user, and the initial author of skydns. In his off-time he is an author, podcaster, and organizer... Read More →
