Investors | January 2021 Investors | January 2021 I’m Nir Shtein ● Software Engineer at Komodor ● The main contributor to ValidKube.com ● Open-Source advocate ● Kubernetes fan :) Hi, nice to meet you!
Cloud native | March 2021 What challenges does Kubernetes present? Scattered data Distributed systems make it harder to understand the effect of a single change Lack of K8s knowledge The knowledge & expertise around K8s is often held by only a few (i.e DevOps). Blind spots Changes are unaudited or hidden
Cloud native | March 2021 "Despite 6 years of progress, Kubernetes is still incredibly complex," said Drew Bradstock, product lead for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). "What we've seen in the past year or so is a lot of enterprises are embracing Kubernetes, but then they run headlong into the difficulty." And the common thread is: Complexity
Investors | January 2021 Investors | January 2021 Make sure to include important metadata: ● Labels and annotations ● Environment variables ● Secrets ● Config maps that point to the proper objects and volumes ● Configuring liveness probes ● Readiness probes Best Practice #1: Maintain a Good YAML Hygiene
Investors | January 2021 Investors | January 2021 Tag and label your logs properly, by including the: ● Proper service name (not the pod names!) ● Version ● Cluster environment information ● Business-specific data Best Practice #2: Logging - Specifically for K8s
Investors | January 2021 Investors | January 2021 There are several ways to separate your K8s environments: Option 1: Create an environment for each stage of the development process (development, QA, staging, production) Best Practice #3: Separate/Segregate Environments
Investors | January 2021 Investors | January 2021 Option 2: Create an environment according to namespaces (special K8s resource) Best Practice #3: Separate/Segregate Environments
Investors | January 2021 Investors | January 2021 Best Practice #4: Invest in Proper Monitoring Open Source Monitoring Solutions Step 1: Choose the right monitoring solution for your needs. Commercial Monitoring Solutions
Investors | January 2021 Investors | January 2021 Best Practice #4: Invest in Proper Monitoring (Cont’d) Step 2: Start monitoring the following metrics: ● Resources: CPU / Memory Usage ● Container Status: Up / Down / Errors / Probe Data / Restart count ● Application Metrics: Application Performance Metrics - APMs Make sure to monitor these metrics in an automated way by setting up proper monitors and alerts
Investors | January 2021 Investors | January 2021 What dark areas of Kubernetes can Komodor illuminate? ● Multi-cluster visibility ● Historical view ● Node issues ● Deleted pods