KubeCon 2019 Barcelona — Impressions and More…
This year, I was fortunate enough to attend #KubeCon and #CloudNativeCon Europe, in Barcelona. #KubeCon 2019 was huge, with lots of great sessions, and I’d like to outline key points which I find as the most important and relevant from #DevOps perspective.
For those who ask what KubeCon is, KubecCon Is a #Kubernetes Conference, an event dedicated to the mostly used container orchestrator: Kubernetes and all surrounding ecosystem and community. Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating applications,deployment, scaling, and management. Its original design based on Google’s Borg and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ecosystem.
First, we need to understand that Kubernetes is not one stop shop software as one may think; but it’s a framework with a vast ecosystem and you should build your puzzle according to the business needs of your organization and your specific use cases. In this my article, I would like to take you to a quick tour, introducing you with few relevant tools and platforms so you will be bit more familiar with some of your options as I leaned in the conference.
Monitoring:
● Prometheus — Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community. It is now a standalone open-source project and maintained independently of any company. To emphasize this, and to clarify the project’s governance structure, Prometheus joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2016 as the second hosted project, after Kubernetes.
Logging:
● Fluentd — decouples data sources from backend systems by providing a unified logging layer in between. This layer allows developers and data analysts to utilize many types of logs as they are generated. Just as importantly, it mitigates the risk of “bad data” slowing down and misinforming your organization. A unified logging layer lets you and your organization make better use of data and iterate more quickly on your software.
Tracing:
● Jaeger — inspired by Dapper and OpenZipkin, is a distributed tracing system released as open source by Uber Technologies. It is used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems, including:
● Distributed context propagation
● Distributed transaction monitoring
● Root cause analysis
● Service dependency analysis
● Performance / latency optimization
● Uber published a blog post, Evolving Distributed Tracing at Uber, where they explain the history and reasons for the architectural choices made in Jaeger
Service mesh:
● Istio — is a service mesh for Kubernetes and other frameworks. Istio lets you connect, secure, control, and observe services. At a high level, Istio helps reduce the complexity of these deployments, and eases the strain on your development teams. It is a completely open source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications.
Visualization UI:
● Grafana — Grafana is an open source visualization tool that can be used on top of a variety of different data stores but is most commonly used together with Prometheus and Elasticsearch. Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data driven culture.
Infrastructure provisioning:
● Terraform — Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp. It enables users to define and provision a datacentre infrastructure using a high-level configuration language known as HashiCorp Configuration Language, or optionally JSON.
SkyWiz, By TeraSky Is official HashiCorp system Integrator
Configuration management:
● Helm — uses a packaging format called charts. A chart is a collection of files that describe a related set of Kubernetes resources. A single chart might be used to deploy something simple, like a simple pod, or something complex, like a full web app stack with HTTP servers, databases, caches, and so on.
Storage
● Rook — Rook turns storage software into self-managing, self-scaling, and self-healing storage services. It does this by automating deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management. Rook uses the facilities provided by the underlying cloud-native container management, scheduling and orchestration platform to perform its duties.
Security
● Twistlock — Twistlock is cloud native security platform, providing holistic coverage across hosts, containers, and serverless computing in a single platform. Twistlock is cloud-native and API-enabled itself, protecting all your workloads throughout their lifecycle, regardless of what underlying compute technology powers them.
Twistlock’s cloud native cyber-security platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks, providing transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory compliance.
SkyWiz by TeraSky Is Twistlock official partner
I hope that by this scanning and short introduction for these relevant tools and platforms I helped you to arrange your preferences and options when working in containers based environment. If you still have any issues, concerns or questions you can contact me directly or info@skywiz.io
