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How to manage Grafana instances within Kubernetes

If you’re using Grafana and Kubernetes, we’ve got exciting news — Grafana Labs will be maintaining and managing the Grafana Operator, the open source Kubernetes operator that helps you manage your Grafana instances within and outside of Kubernetes. This significant move not only elevates the Grafana Operator to an officially supported tool but also cements its place as a staple for managing Grafana as code, especially for users keen on adopting GitOps principles.

What Is Continuous Delivery and How Does It Work?

Continuous delivery (CD) is an application development practice that involves automatically preparing code changes for release to a production environment. Combined with continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery is a key aspect of modern software development. Together, these two practices are known as CI/CD. Properly implemented CI enables developers to deploy any code change to testing and production environments late in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Scaling Platform Engineering: Shopify's Blueprint

Platform Engineering is a hot topic these days. We’ve seen the hype around it in 2023, and I expect we shall see it becoming production-grade as we move into 2024. I wanted to look into this topic, and learn from those who’ve already implemented it at scale: the e-commerce hyperscaler Shopify. In the latest episode of OpenObservability Talks, I had the pleasure of hosting Aparna Subramanian, the Director of Production Engineering at Shopify.

Confused by Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy? A Workshop with Dario Tranchitella - Navigate Europe 23

Dive into the world of Kubernetes multi-tenancy with Dario from Clastix in this Navigate workshop. Explore the complexities of Kubernetes environments and learn about innovative solutions like Capsule and Paralus that revolutionize how multi-tenancy is managed. Video is packed with valuable insights and practical demonstrations.

Grafana Beyla 1.2 release: eBPF auto-instrumentation with full Kubernetes support

We’re excited to announce that with the release of Grafana Beyla 1.2, Kubernetes support is now fully integrated. With this update, the Grafana Beyla configuration now “understands” Kubernetes semantics to provide a more fine-grained selection of services to instrument. Beyla users can decorate metrics and traces with the metadata of Kubernetes entities, such as pods and deployments, that run the automatically instrumented services.

Streamline Azure container monitoring with the Datadog AKS cluster extension

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) enables you to easily deploy and manage containerized applications in Azure while leveraging Microsoft resources such as development tools, security features, and more. As with any Kubernetes service, the sheer volume of containers being orchestrated makes monitoring AKS cluster health challenging, which can slow response times to critical incidents and create bottlenecks around long-term optimizations.