End of week 3/20

I’m now 3 weeks into my master’s thesis. 15%. 17 weeks to go. Thus far, everything is going fine but my time estimation is a bit off. This week, I planned to be finished with designing how to run experiments, and to start running some experiments. However, I’m not finished with the designing of experiments yet…

Summary of week [3/20]

• Monday
  • Started playing around with the tool kops to provision Kubernetes clouds in AWS
• Tuesday
  • More playing around with kops and started designing a script, runExperiments.sh, that should provision a Kubernetes cluster, then install analytics tools, then install sock shop, then run traffic normally, then introduce anomalies, then tear down the Kubernetes cluster.
• Wednesday
  • More work on runExperiments.sh
• Thursday
  • More work on runExperiments.sh
• Friday
  • More work on runExperiments.sh
  • Had a meeting with my supervisor regarding details concerning my experiments, e.g. how to introduce anomalies, suitable node size on AWS for k8s worker nodes etc.
  • Wrote this post

Experiences

This week went by rather fast and I feel that I didn’t achieve as much as I had planned for. Much can perhaps be attributed to the task of designing experiments (and building a runExperiments.sh-script to run experiments) being a rather large task.

I’ve worked between 12:00 and 21:00 most days this week. This was perhaps not such a good idea, as I often missed lunches with other employees at Elastisys, where I could discuss problems and such.

Next week

According to the time plan, I should spend next week with “running experiments”. I’m not finished with the script to run experiments yet, so I will have to do that first. Therefore, the plan is to finish the runExperiments.sh script by Wednesday, and to start running experiments after that.