OpenShift Commons Paris 2024 - Choose Your Own Observability Adventure Workshop

In my previous article, I mentioned I would be in Paris for the OpenShift Commons co-located event at Gaumont Aquaboulevard. 

I was asked to share some insights into the link between Platform Engineers and the importance of providing cloud native observability tools and infrastructure as part of their developer experience from the start.

We had a movie theater as a venue with a nice group of experienced Platform Engineers that I presented the slides you'll find below before letting them choose from four different workshops that featured the CNCF observability technologies for monitoring, tracing, telemetry pipelines, and open visualization.

We kicked it off at 11:00 on Tuesday, March 19th and had a lot of fun. See below for the details.

Incontro DevOps Italia 2024 - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data (slides + recording)

As previously posted, I made it a priority to attend Incontro DevOps Italia 2024 in Bologna, Italy.  I felt it was important to come back this year and share my thoughts on cloud native data and some of the challenges that organizations are facing.

The event was in Bologna, the lively, historic capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy. Its Piazza Maggiore is a sprawling plaza lined with arched colonnades, cafes and medieval and Renaissance structures such as City Hall, the Fountain of Neptune and the Basilica di San Petronio. Among the city’s many medieval towers are the Two Towers, leaning Asinelli and Garisenda. 

I really enjoyed exploring the culinary offerings that Bologna offered and hope to be invited back again next time!

Below you will find the outline of my talk along with the slides and a recording as promised.  

Telemetry Pipelines Workshop - Installing Fluent Bit from Source

Are you ready for getting started with cloud native observability with telemetry pipelines? 

This article is part of a series exploring a workshop guiding you through the open source project Fluent Bit, what it is, a basic installation, and setting up a first telemetry pipeline project. Learn how to manage your cloud native data from source to destination using the telemetry pipeline phases covering collection, aggregation, transformation, and forwarding from any source to any destination. 

The previous article in this series provided an introduction to Fluent Bit where we gain an understanding of its role in the cloud native observability world. This article dives into the installation of Fluent Bit on your local machine using the project source code. You can find more details in the accompanying workshop lab.

Telemetry Pipelines Workshop - Introduction to Fluent Bit

Are you ready for getting started with cloud native observability with telemetry pipelines? 

This article is part of a series exploring a workshop guiding you through the open source project Fluent Bit, what it is, a basic installation, and setting up a first telemetry pipeline project. Learn how to manage your cloud native data from source to destination using the telemetry pipeline phases covering collection, aggregation, transformation, and forwarding from any source to any destination. 

Since Chronosphere acquired the capabilities for integrating telemetry pipelines, I've been digging into how this works, the use cases it solves, and having a lot of fun with the basis, CNCF project Fluent Bit. This workshop is the result of my sharing how to get started with telemetry pipelines and all that you can do with Fluent Bit.

This first article in the series provides an introduction to Fluent Bit where we gain an understanding of its role in the cloud native observability world. You can find more details in the accompanying workshop lab.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe - Workshops, architectures, and Chronosphere preview

It's that time of year again where the legions of cloud native and open source communities from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) gather for this semi-annual event, this time in Paris, France!

There are so many things going on there, from the pre-event Cloud Native Rejects from 17-18 March at ESpot in Paris. You will find an array of talks that, in theory, didn't make the selection for KubeCon and yet are so good we have two days of enjoying them.

This is followed by a day of co-located events, which are single day conferences targeting specific areas of technology and CNCF communities. This all happens on 19 March and see the website listing for exact locations of the event that interests you.

Finally, we get to spend 20-22 March in the Paris Expo Porte De Versailles with thousands of our favorite community members sharing information, workshops, talks, lightning talks, and a huge booth pavilion. 

Below you'll find all the fun and adventures that I have planned throughout the week in Paris.

O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - Sneaky Sprawling Mess

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous article, we looked at the pain we are facing when led down proprietary paths for our cloud native observability solutions. In this last article in my series, I'll address the sneaky sprawling mess that  often develops in our cloud native observability tooling landscape. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.

O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - The Protocol Jungle

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous article, we discussed why so many practitioners are underestimating their existing landscape within cloud native observability solutions. In this article, I'll share insights into the maze that is the protocol jungle and how it's causing us pain. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.

O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - Ignoring Existing Landscape

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous article, we looked at the problem of underestimating cardinality in our cloud native observability solutions. Now it's time to move on to another common mistake organizations make, that of ignoring our existing landscape. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.