The presentation discusses a network-aware framework for workload scheduling in Kubernetes clusters, which aims to reduce latency and improve performance.
- The network-aware framework uses a combination of plugins and algorithms to optimize workload scheduling based on network topology and bandwidth resources.
- The framework includes an application group and network topology controller, load watcher component, and a scheduler with filtering and scoring functions.
- The framework was tested with the Redis cluster application and was able to improve throughput by 20% on average.
- The framework is not yet production-ready but is expected to be included in the Seek scheduling community in the next few months.
- Future plans include adding a plugin for monitoring bandwidth and dynamically adjusting workload scheduling based on real-time network congestion.
- An anecdote was provided demonstrating the performance improvement of the online boutique application with the network-aware framework compared to the default Kubernetes scheduler.