Cloud Native + Kubernetes Manchester

7:00pm - Exploring the power of OSS telemetry pipelines, Fluent Bit edition - Eric Schabell

7:45pm - Break

8:00pm - Self certification: Solving kubernetes untenable testing matrices - Yusuf Ramzan

8:45pm - Wrap up

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Exploring the power of OSS telemetry pipelines, Fluent Bit edition
It’s time you stopped letting your telemetry data pressure your budgets and get in the way of solving issues with agility! No more I say! Take back control of your telemetry data as we guide you through the open source project Fluent Bit. Learn how to manage your telemetry data from source to destination using the pipeline phases covering collection, parsing, aggregation, transformation, and forwarding from any source to any destination. Buckle up for a fun ride as you learn by exploring how telemetry pipelines work, how to set up your first pipeline, and exploring several common use cases that Fluent Bit helps solve as you integrate with OpenTelemetry collectors in your organization. All this backed by a self-paced, hands-on workshop that attendees can pursue at home after this session (https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-fluentbit).

Talk includes live demoing of some of the following (viewers choice):
- collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, enriching and securing, then passing to output destination.
- collecting Fluent Bit metrics and displaying with Prometheus.
- integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry.
- exploring logs collection and control with Fluent Bit on Kubernetes clusters.
- preview collecting AI workload (LLM) metrics, logs, and traces with Fluent Bit.

Self certification: Solving kubernetes untenable testing matrices
Developing software for Kubernetes is hard, testing that software in specific environments is even harder and testing it in unknown environments is down right impossible. Therefore the question is, why not ask your customers to test themselves using an automated testing tool?

With self-certification, your customers can build confidence in your product by testing themselves using a simple pod!

At Couchbase, we supply our customers with our own certification pod that contains our e2e test suite that allows customers to run sanity, p0, p1 and functionality specific tests on their own platform. When a customer encounters an issue, we have a command line tool that will allow them to submit their logs and cluster information to our support staff for easy troubleshooting and triaging of their issues.

I will walk you through the certification tool and the sort of tests that we run. I will also talk about how easy it is to get up and running and how you can pick either specific tests, test suites or areas of functionality to test.