Timberland⌗

Contribution⌗

Individual Contributor

Memory Oversubscription
Unified Cluster Health-checks
Improved remote actor discovery
Several QOL improvements

Abstract⌗

Timberland is a self-bootstrapping Kubernetes alternative with package management capabilities based on Hashicorp software. Originally developed by Radix Bio Labs.

It encompasses our infrastructure layer and is responsible for delivering a developer experience to Radix’s internal dev team that is capable of unifying deployment across multiple operating systems, complex customer networks (firewalls, NAT’s), and healing when something goes wrong. To do this, it relys heavily on the Hashicorp stack, with the tools of terraform, nomad, consul, and vault being key cornerstones to implement Timberland.

How it works⌗

Using the included scripts, Timberland and its dependencies can be installed easily
Utilize the included timberland <command> features to operate the system

Requirements⌗

Bazel
Terraform
Consul
Vault
Nomad

Typical use case⌗

Timberland is typical used for:

Bootstrap a cluster and configuration store
Start up the Radix Backend
Bootstrap ACL tokens
Bootstrap SSL
Provide a SDN layer to traverse corporate networks
Elect leaders when nodes fail / come back online via raft
Provide healthchecks
Nominally address services (rather than IP:port) in order to not worry about DHCP
When new nodes come online, fingerprint them to possibly roll out drivers if they are attached
Run our databases
Update and version deployments
Provide a centralized management plane
Provide a module system to easily add new components without having to be Radix
Interact uniformly with Firecracker VM’s, QEMU/KVM VM’s, Docker containers, Chroot binaries, and binaries running un-isolated

Tech Stack⌗

Bazel
Scala
Python
Terraform
Consul
Vault
Nomad