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Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Git & Jenkins

This article strives to keep things as simple as possible using backwards-compatible freestyle jobs. The idea is to use the power and simplicity of Git rather than introduce complexity from - and coupling to - Jenkins. Get tips to refine the continuous delivery pipeline process with Git and Jenkins to make life easier.

Delivering scalable DevOps practices with Docker in Bamboo 6.4

How many times have you had to work through local environment issues when running code only to have it fail as soon as it tests start to run? With Bamboo’s Docker Runner, those problems are a thing of the past. Now, create and isolate your end-to-end build processes inside Docker containers with full control to install build dependencies or manage resource usage.

Sean Porter | DATA COLLECTION & PROMETHEUS SCRAPING WITH SENSU 2.0

Sean will demonstrate how Sensu 2.0 is designed to collect monitoring and telemetry data from these heterogeneous environments and store them in InfluxDB. Sensu 2.0 is the next release of the open source monitoring framework, rewritten in Go, with new capabilities and reduced operational overhead. Using Sensu alongside InfluxDB, Sean will go over various patterns of data collection, including scraping Prometheus metrics, and show how Sensu enables self-service data collection for service owners.

Jacob Lisi | WHAT DOES KUBERNETES LOOK LIKE?: PERFORMANCE MONITORING & VISUALIZATION WITH GRAFANA

Monitoring Kubernetes is vital to understanding the health and performance of a cluster, but which metrics are most important to add to your dashboards and alert on? Jacob will discuss how to most effectively monitor and visualize your Kubernetes cluster using the Grafana Kubernetes plugin and PromQL.

Tom Wilkie | THE RED METHOD: HOW TO INSTRUMENT YOUR SERVICES

In this talk, Tom Wilkie will discuss patterns of application instrumentation, where and when they are applicable, and how they can be implemented with Prometheus. He’ll cover Google’s Four Golden Signals, the RED Method, the USE Method, and Dye Testing. He’ll also discuss why consistency is an important approach for reducing cognitive load. Finally, he’ll talk about the limitations of these approaches and what can be done to overcome them.