Speaker: Stefan Prodan

Developer Experience Engineer @weaveworks

Stefan Prodan, a Developer Experience engineer at Weaveworks. He spends most of his time at Weaveworks integrating and testing different open source projects with Weave Cloud and blogging about it. He’s passionate about all things Cloud Native, programs in Golang and has a soft spot for Prometheus as well as OpenFaaS serverless technology -- where he is a core contributor. Previously he worked as a software architect and a DevOps consultant, helping companies embrace DevOps and the SRE movement. Stefan has over 15 years of experience with software development and he enjoys programming in Go and writing about distributed systems.

Find Stefan Prodan at

@stefanprodan

Workshop : Mastering Microservices Monitoring with Prometheus

Location : Marquis C, 9th fl.
Day of week : Tuesday
Duration : 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Monitoring containerised apps creates a whole new set of challenges that traditional monitoring systems struggle with. In this hands-on Workshop, Ilya and Brice from Weaveworks will guide you through using the open source Prometheus monitoring toolkit and integrating it with Kubernetes on an example application.

After this workshop, you'll be able to use Prometheus to monitor your microservices on a Kubernetes cluster. We'll cover:

  • An introduction to Kubernetes to manage containers;
  • The monitoring maturity model;
  • An overview of whitebox and blackbox monitoring;
  • Monitoring with Prometheus;
  • Using PromQL (the Prometheus Query Language) to monitor your app in a dynamic system

Workshop : Production-Ready Kubernetes and GitOps

Location : Marquis C, 9th fl.
Day of week : Tuesday
Duration : 9:00am - 12:00pm

Weaveworks has been running Kubernetes in production for over two years. The Weaveworks Engineering and Developer Experience teams will be running a workshop, sharing their expertise as users and contributors of Kubernetes as well as followers of GitOps (operations by pull request) practices. 

Join this hands-on workshop to learn how to define “production-ready” Kubernetes and the implications when developing, operating, and scaling your Kubernetes microservices. 

Topics include: What is "Production Ready"? DevOps best practices and the movement towards a “GitOps” approach Advanced Deployment Patterns such as Canary deploys, Blue/Green deploys, and A/B testing

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