Cloud Native September

We're back after the summer break in the Snug at The Reach Manchester (thereachmcr.com).

6:30pm - Networking with food and drink

7:00pm - From GKE to Incidents: A Real-World Look at Autotrader’s Cloud-Native Operations - Dave Whyte (Autotrader)

7:45pm - Break

8:00pm - Exploring the power of OSS telemetry pipelines, Fluent Bit edition - Eric Schabell (Chronosphere)

8:45pm - Wrap up

Thanks to our sponsor: Fluent Do

We are always looking for sponsors for future meetups so please contact the organisers if you would like to host. Similarly, be great to have proposed talks as well.

From GKE to Incidents: A Real-World Look at Autotrader’s Cloud-Native Operations

At Autotrader, we run our Delivery Platform on Google Kubernetes Engine, with Istio as our service mesh.

In this session, I’ll give a behind-the-scenes look at how we run Kubernetes at scale and support hundreds of developers across the business.

I’ll start with a quick overview of our setup – GCP, GKE, Istio – and how we structure our teams to run the platform as a service.
From there, I’ll get into the practical side: a live look at our monitoring stack, our Platform Dashboard, how we handle incidents, and post-mortems.

Dave Whyte is Operations Lead at Autotrader, the UK’s biggest digital automotive platform. With over 20 years’ experience, he’s played a key role in evolving IT Operations to deliver stability, availability, and performance at scale. Dave takes a hands-on approach, from shaping support processes to making the most of the Public Cloud, always adapting to meet the growing need for agility across the business.

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):

1. Collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, enriching and securing, then passing to output destination.
2. Collecting Fluent Bit metrics and displaying with Prometheus.
3. Integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry.
4. Exploring logs collection and control with Fluent Bit on Kubernetes clusters.
5. Preview collecting AI workload (LLM) metrics, logs, and traces with Fluent Bit.