keptn VS examples

One of the other places I spent a lot of time at at KubeCon NA was the CNCF Project Pavillion. I was very happy to see that it was a bit larger than the area we had during KubeCon EU, but I still wish that it was bigger and wasn’t so tucked away in the corner. A number of booths were showcasing their projects with demos through the week, hosted Q&A time, and gave away swag. If you are still trying to understand the Cloud Native Ecosystem, you can look at this very extensive map of the landscape and projects under the CNCF, some of which are more advanced than others. Of course I’m biased, but I’m really excited for the work that Keptn is doing in helping developers have more control over their application lifecycle. I’m also very excited to see where Backstage goes and how other CNCF projects can integrate with their service catalog.

I can’t speak from experience, but I think Keptn might be worth looking into: https://keptn.sh/

Go try this out and share your feedback on what you like about this integration and what you’d like improved. Feel free to create issues, engage in discussions on the Keptn Slack and Litmus Github repository. Stay tuned for more updates on how you can leverage Keptn & LitmusChaos CNCF projects to build and ship resilient cloud-native applications!

If you want, you can also manually download the binary file from Github and install the CLI by moving it into your path.

Honeycomb

I haven't used anything else, but I'll gladly shill for https://honeycomb.io.

With all of this in place I went a step further and added Opentelemetry to track the stats of how often the routine was being triggered on Honeycomb.

Events can be used in many meaningful ways. The Event subsystem of B is pretty much a co-evolution of what honeycomb.io offers, but implemented completely differently - it is on bare-metal, and hence a lot cheaper. Because of that, B never subsampled, but always kept a full low of all events anywhere, no exceptions.

It should be noted that this is a very oblique ad for http://honeycomb.io. That in no way impugns the content of the post, and in fact, it's given the content of the post that I feel compelled to point out that, ultimately, this is an ad. Because what is sales and advertising, anyway? It's just a way to get you to buy a product, and you can't do that if you've never even heard about the product. I'm not currently in the market for an observability solution (something something splunk) but if I were, I've now heard of them.

The question though, is why does money ruin everything? The naive questions of an open source zealot to a proprietary software salesperson are one thing, but since we all need money to live, why does money being part of the equation (eg if someone was getting paid to post here) ruin things? Would a "donate to open source" button be more successful if the donate text is "buy me a coffee", "buy me a beer", or "upgrade my beer from Coors light"?

https://xkcd.com/2347/ was and is true, and if we don't figure out a way to change that, I don't really see a future for open source.

Very cool to see honeycomb.io is doing that. I'm about to embark on my distributed tracing learning journey, this makes me want to try honeycomb right away.

Caveat: I work for a vendor in the O11y space (https://honeycomb.io) as a Developer Advocate, however, this advice is generic, not specific to our platform.

I spent Day 2 at the Colony Club to attend OTel Unplugged. This event was sponsored by Lightstep, Honeycomb, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace, Crowdstrike, and NGINX. I came into the event not knowing what to expect. I can sometimes clamp up when I’m around folks that I don’t know, but because I was helping with the event check-in, I got to say hello to a number of the attendees, which helped break the ice. And it turns out that there were a lot of names that I recognized from my work in the OTel community, and it was nice to connect in person with folks whom I’d only previously met through Slack or Zoom.

It's no surprise that my apps are mostly written using Sanic as I'm pretty involved with the project. I've been wanting to start testing honeycomb out as well, so it seemed the perfect opportunity to try out.