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· Sep 16, 2021

Best practices for IRIS and Kubernetes

Does InterSystems have any best practices for deploying IRIS into Kubernetes? For example one question we have is should IRIS have a dedicated AKS cluster or can it be added to an existing cluster?

David

Product version: IRIS 2021.1
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We've tried to package up our best practices for deploying IRSI in K8s into the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator.  In other words, instead of documenting everything, we built a tool that automates what can be automated.

That said, it doesn't cover everything.  Your example question is a good one - should IRIS clusters be deployed into the same kubernetes cluster as your other workloads?  The right answer to that depends on your exact needs.

In general, you shouldn't deploy IRIS into a different Kubernetes cluster than the rest of your kubernetes-managed application.  However, I'd consider doing it if there were strong architectural/compliance reasons to keep the IRIS cluster separated from other applications.  

Feel free to reach out if you want someone to go over your situation give more proscriptive advice.