Cloud Native Rejekts NA 2025 - Expanding Your Toolbox: Beginners Guide to Controlling Kubernetes Logs (slides)

Today I spoke at the always fun event taking place before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, Cloud Native Rejekts. 

Since my transfer from the application development domains to the cloud native observability domain more than three years ago, I've never missed a single CFP for this event. This year it was in another amazing location, The Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.

In the past I've shared observability topics in a session on Perses,  a session providing OpenTelemetry insights, and a session on integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry including a live demo. Today I told a cloud native story helping developers gain control of their logs in Kubernetes environments while within their inner development loop.

 Below you will find the session slides, abstract, and location details for this Atlanta based event.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Controlling Logs with Fluent Bit on Kubernetes (updated)

This is a special update to the original Controlling Logs with  Fluent Bit on Kubernetes article published previously that is no longer valid.

The issue requiring this update arose over last weekend when I discovered that Broadcom, who acquired VMWare, who were the custodians of the bitnami catalog, did something not so nice to all of us.

In this issue, they announced that the catalog would be moved in August 2025 to a legacy catalog in favor of a 'secure' catalog and no longer updated.  

This meant that the current Logs Control Easy Install project, the workshop Controlling Logs with Fluent Bit on Kubernetes, and the original article had to all be updated.  I spent this last weekend and most of this week bringing all three of these artifacts up to date with a new application workload to replace the use of Ghost CMS.

Let's take a look at what these changes meant to the original article and provide you with a new guide, using Fluent Bit to get control of logs on a Kubernetes cluster.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top Tip Using Telemetry Pipeline Parsers for Developers

This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. 

Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Let's take a look at the topic of this article, using Fluent Bit tips for developers. In case you missed the previous article, check out the top 3 telemetry pipeline output plugins for developers where you get tips on the best of Fluent Bit for your developer experiences.

This article will be a hands-on tour of the things that help you as a developer testing out your Fluent Bit pipelines. We'll take a look at the top tip when using a parser for your telemetry pipeline configuration in Fluent Bit.

All Things Open 2025 - Cloud Metrics: The Cost-Value Equation (slides)

As I previously mentioned, I missed the 2024 All Things Open, having last spoken in 2023, but I'm back this year at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC! 

I'm a big fan of the All Things Open conferences and meetups, as they have been a rock star organization since they started and always put on great events in the state of North Carolina. This year is the 13th edition and I've only missed the events across the pandemic years.

The selection committee was kind enough to select one of my favorite topics that I've been working on within my current team at Chronosphere, cloud metrics and cost-value equations. Today I was on-site and gave this burst-talk session. I wanted to share the slides and my thoughts on the attendee reactions.

SRECon Eu 2025 - The Executive Signal (slides)

 "SREcon25 Europe/Middle East/Africa is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the profession as well as those who have been involved in it for decades. The conference has a culture of critical thought, deep technical insights, continuous improvement, and innovation."

Today I shared some insights into the executive signal and gave some important tips that everyone can use to cut through the noise and drive change. Below I share the slides from my talk.

Cloud Native Manchester: Exploring the Power of Open Source Telemetry Pipelines, Fluent Bit Edition (slides)

 

As I mentioned previously, I was going to speak in June at Cloud Native Manchester, but due to transit strikes in my country I was unable to make the trip over to Manchester. 

The meetup is described as, "A Northern outpost for all things Cloud Native - from Kubernetes to Etcd and everything in between... If you're interested in container orchestration and all its surrounding ecosystem, then we welcome you onboard!"

Tonight I shared a rather ambitious session where, after introducing the concepts of telemetry pipelines, I let the meetup attendees choose from a list of five examples (demo scenarios). I then proceeded to share live on stage the details of how things work; Fluent Bit pipelines, integration with OpenTelemetry, integration with Prometheus, controlling logs in a Kubernetes cluster, and AI observability. 

As promised, I wanted to share both the slides and talk details below.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Output Plugins for Developers

This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. 

Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Let's take a look at the topic of this article, using Fluent Bit tips for developers. In case you missed the previous article, check out the top 3 telemetry pipeline input plugins for developers where you get tips on the best of Fluent Bit for your developer experiences.

This article will be a hands-on tour of the things that help you as a developer testing out your Fluent Bit pipelines. We'll take a look at the top three output plugins for your telemetry pipeline configuration.

SRECon EU 2025 - The Executive Signal

"SREcon25 Europe/Middle East/Africa is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the profession as well as those who have been involved in it for decades. The conference has a culture of critical thought, deep technical insights, continuous improvement, and innovation."

This is SRECon25 EU and with it being in Dublin from 7-9 Oct this year, I couldn't resist submitting a few of my cloud native observability ideas. They had the entire spectrum of session types, including lightning talks, so I pushed in a few for each category.

The final selection was a few weeks back and for the second time, they seem keen to see one of my lightning talks. Let's see what they found to be the most interesting idea I pushed in for their call for papers.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Input Plugins for Developers

This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. 

Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Let's take a look at the topic of this article, using Fluent Bit tips for developers. In case you missed the previous article, check out the developers guide to service section configuration where you get tips on making the most of your developer inner loop with Fluent Bit.

This article will be a hands-on tour of the things that help you as a developer testing out your Fluent Bit pipelines. We'll take a look at the input plugin section of a developers telemetry pipeline configuration.