{"id":2678,"date":"2018-09-19T15:41:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2018-09-19T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T19:42:05","slug":"all-day-devops-daniel-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/all-day-devops-daniel-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"All Day DevOps: A Look at Monitoring the Easy Way With Daniel Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Cloud computing events are invaluable for learning the latest tips and tricks of the space. Unfortunately, many of us can’t attend events due to location or costs. To alleviate this struggle, <\/span>All Day DevOps<\/a> was created. This online conference takes place of 24 hours with 112 sessions for free! Each session led by industry professionals in a variety of areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

To help kick this event off, we connected with Daniel Barker to learn more about his upcoming speech,\u00a0Monitoring the Easy Way.<\/em>\u00a0Daniel currently works as the Chief Architect at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He also leads the technical and cultural transformation for the NAIC. NAIC focuses on consumer protection in the insurance industry. We cover various forms of monitoring<\/a> so we’ll definitely be tuned in! Read more about Dan at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n

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Briefing on\u00a0Monitoring the Easy Way<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n

The technology industry has recently decided to move from the word monitoring to the word observability. In some cases, this is likely a bit of a marketing gimmick, however, it is quite important. It takes the industry a little closer to its academic roots like so many other modern implementations of academic literature from the 1970\u2019s. So, what is observability?<\/span><\/p>\n

Observability isn\u2019t just a marketing term; it\u2019s a component of <\/span>control theory<\/span><\/a>. If you want a quick primer, this <\/span>video<\/span><\/a> might be helpful. Basically, observability means that you can estimate a particular state of a system based on an output. More generally, a system\u2019s state should be deterministic from its outputs. Controllability, the <\/span>mathematical dual<\/span><\/a> of observability, of a system requires that a system state be determined by the inputs to the system.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>This is a fairly simple concept, but it\u2019s very challenging to put into practice. In a sufficiently complex system, it may be nearly impossible to implement full observability. However, you should strive to get the right outputs that allow you to determine the system\u2019s state, especially when you encounter a failure mode.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s becoming easier and easier to install and operate the tools necessary. <\/span>Istio<\/span><\/a> is helping to drive this change, particularly for older applications. It can be very hard to implement tracing and metrics in some older applications, but Istio provides a forward and reverse proxy for older applications that can produce both metrics and tracing data. Istio can do more than that, but just this increased visibility will make it valuable to organizations with legacy systems they don\u2019t wish to upgrade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prometheus<\/span><\/a> is a metrics aggregation system that is very easy to get running on Kubernetes. The <\/span>Prometheus Operator<\/span><\/a> from CoreOS\/Red Hat makes installing and maintaining Prometheus and its companion Alertmanager nearly trivial. We\u2019ll walk through this during my session and show how you can configure multiple versions at once to test your upgrades and explore differences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wait, what\u2019s an Operator? I thought those went away years ago. An <\/span>Operator<\/span><\/a> is a pattern for codifying operational knowledge into Kubernetes primitives and allowing interactions with this pattern as a first-class citizen by using Kubernetes tools like kubectl or Helm. I have previously <\/span>covered this topic at BSidesKC<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The last tool we\u2019ll be discussing during my session is <\/span>Jaeger<\/span><\/a>. This tool was created by Uber Technologies a couple years ago. It uses the <\/span>OpenTracing<\/span><\/a> standard to implement its traces, which Istio gives you without making any additional changes. OpenTracing is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, that isn\u2019t tied to Jaeger or any other tracing system, which makes your code and infrastructure highly portable to new tools. Jaeger is one of the best tools in this space. It has a lot of features that really help it scale to high volumes of data. It also has an interface that is easy to move around and discover insights.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be deploying Jaeger using an <\/span>operator<\/span><\/a> as well, which is becoming an increasingly common pattern. A year ago I was using Helm for this process, but now it seems everything is getting its own operator. However, many of these operators are starting to be deployed by Helm, which makes that process a little easier, but the lines of control need to be clear so users don\u2019t get confused as to which tool controls which aspects of the deployment. Often in these systems it can become easy to get into circular dependencies that require some method for bootstrapping from scratch, so don\u2019t forget that important step.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to learn more about these tools and concepts, then check out my talk at All Day DevOps<\/a> on October 17th, 2018<\/strong>. Also, I cover more on observability and several related tools in <\/span>my new eBook<\/span><\/a> published by Opensource.com.<\/span><\/p>\n

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About Daniel Barker<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Dan spent\u00a012 years\u00a0in the\u00a0military\u00a0as a fighter jet mechanic before transitioning to a career in technology as a Software\/DevOps Engineer\/Manager. He’s now the\u00a0Chief Architect\u00a0at the\u00a0National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He’s leading the technical and cultural transformation for the NAIC, a non-profit focused on consumer protection in the insurance industry. Dan is also an organizer of the\u00a0DevOps KC Meetup\u00a0and the\u00a0DevOpsDays KC\u00a0conference.<\/p>\n

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