Eric D. Schabell

When you jump in the CNCF Sandbox you will meet the new kid, a visualization and dashboards project called Perses. This session will provide attendees with the basics to get started with integrating Prometheus, PromQL, and more with Perses. A journey will be taken from zero to beautiful visualizations seamlessly integrated with Prometheus. This session leaves the attendees with hands-on self-paced workshop content to head home and dive right into creating their first visualizations and integrations with Prometheus and Perses!

Perses (visualization) - Great observability is impossible without great visualization! Learn how to adopt truly open visualization by installing Perses, exploring the provided tooling, tinkering with its API, and then get your hands dirty building your first dashboard in no time! The workshop is self-paced and available online, so attendees can continue to explore after the event:

https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-perses

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. 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 15 mins of live demoing.

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).

When you jump in the CNCF Sandbox you will meet the new kid, a visualization and dashboards project called Perses. This session will provide attendees with the basics to get started with integrating Prometheus, PromQL, and more with Perses. A journey will be taken from zero to beautiful visualizations seamlessly integrated with Prometheus. This session leaves the attendees with hands-on self-paced workshop content to head home and dive right into creating their first visualizations and integrations with Prometheus and Perses!

Perses (visualization) - Great observability is impossible without great visualization! Learn how to adopt truly open visualization by installing Perses, exploring the provided tooling, tinkering with its API, and then get your hands dirty building your first dashboard in no time! The workshop is self-paced and available online, so attendees can continue to explore after the event: https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-perses

The cloud-native ecosystem has grown exponentially in the last few years, as has the complexity of the distributed architectures being built. In a context where keeping up with technology requires a substantial amount of computational power and data, monitoring our cloud-native applications has become a constant struggle against the storm.

The ever-increasing volume of traces, metrics, events, and logs generated by our systems is a double-edged sword: on one hand, if not managed correctly, becoming a distraction from needed insights. On the other hand, if approached with care and thought, providing organizations the chance to sail calm cloud-native seas.

In this session, we will discover how to avoid drowning in the sea of monitoring data, instead understanding how to provide insights while using only what is needed. We will explore the emerging scenarios on the horizon, abandoning the oars and testing the waters of artificial intelligence as it applies to our observability use cases

When you jump in the CNCF Sandbox you will soon (may be approved by the time you see this) meet the new kid, a visualization and dashboards project called Perses. This session will provide attendees with the basics to get started with integrating Prometheus, PromQL, and more with Perses. A journey will be taken from zero to beautiful visualizations seamlessly integrated with Prometheus. This session leaves the attendees with hands-on self-paced workshop content to head home and dive right into creating their first visualizations and integrations with Prometheus and Perses!

When you jump in the CNCF Sandbox you will soon (may be approved by the time you see this) meet the new kid, a visualization and dashboards project called Perses. This session will provide attendees with the basics to get started with integrating Prometheus, PromQL, and more with Perses. A journey will be taken from zero to beautiful visualizations seamlessly integrated with Prometheus. This session leaves the attendees with hands-on self-paced workshop content to head home and dive right in to creating their first visualizations and integrations with Prometheus and Perses!

Are you interested in dipping your toes in the cloud native observability waters, but as an engineer you are not sure where to get started with tracing your microservices and applications on Kubernetes? Then this is the session for you, where we take you on your first steps in an active open-source project that offers a buffet of opportunities for getting started with telemetry data. The project, openTelemetry (OTEL), is where we start with de-mystifying key concepts and terms such as observability, telemetry, instrumentation to lay a foundation. Then we’ll explore the OTEL community and how to become not only an end-user, but possibly a contributor.We will wrap up with an overview of the components in this project, such as the Collector, the OTEL protocol (OTLP), its APIs, and its SDKs. Attendees will leave with an understanding of key observability concepts in distributed tracing!

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives. That hasty decision up front leads to big headaches very quickly down the road. In this talk, I'll introduce the problem facing everyone with cloud native observability followed by 3 common mistakes that I'm seeing organizations make and how you can avoid them!

Key takeaways - This session is never the same twice as you the audience / attendees choose from a list of cloud native observability pitfalls that DevOps have to contend with in their daily cloud native lives! Super engaging and f

Great observability begins with great instrumentation! We know it's hard to decide where to start your observability journey, so we've come up with a perfect introduction to observability workshop collection, getting you hands-on with the best open source cloud native observability projects available. Attendees can pick their own cloud native observability learning path (https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io) in this session from the following workshops:

OpenTelemetry (traces) - Learn how to adopt OpenTelemetry by instrumenting a sample application with spans and metrics. You’ll leave with an understanding of how telemetry travels and be ready to bring OpenTelemetry to your project. The workshop is self-paced and available online, so attendees can continue to explore after the event: https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-opentelemetry

Prometheus (metrics) - During the workshop, you will install Prometheus, collect metrics, and learn how to effectively run it in your observability stac

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives. That hasty decision up front leads to big headaches very quickly down the road. In this talk, I'll introduce the problem facing everyone with cloud native observability followed by 3 common mistakes that I'm seeing organizations make and how you can avoid them!

The CNCF Ambassador program is designed for individuals who are passionate about cloud native technologies and want to contribute to the community. Becoming an ambassador is a great opportunity to enhance your knowledge, gain visibility within the industry, and help drive the adoption of cloud-native technologies. The road to becoming an ambassador might seem intimidating, scary, or just impossible, but it does not have to be. We've put together a roadmap that leads you to the title of CNCF Ambassador. In this session a current ambassador and the community manager share the stage to bring you insights into achieving the title of CNCF Ambassador. Whether you are a developer, student, or seasoned professional, this talk provides attendees with 5 actionable insights needed to take your cloud-native skills to the next level and become a CNCF Ambassador. Join us to learn how you can contribute to the community and advance your career by taking the road to the CNCF Ambassador community.

We all want to have better business outcomes for our organizations solutions, such as faster remediation of problems, easier problem detection, greater revenue generation, happier customers, and engineering teams that can remain focused on delivering more business value. The problem with the popular three pillars (metrics, logs, tracing) is that you are talking about technology aspects and not about solutions. It's like talking about the tools in a mechanics toolbox used to make your convertible run again, instead of focusing on the blue smoke coming out of the exhaust, the rising engine temperature, and using that data to quickly remediate the problem by replacing the seals to prevent oil leaking in the engine. Let’s quickly tour the phases that lead to better outcomes and get our focus back on effective observability goals.

Are you interested in dipping your toes in the cloud native observability waters, but as an engineer you are not sure where to get started with tracing problems through your microservices and application landscapes on Kubernetes? Then this is the session for you, where we take you on your first steps in an active open-source project that offers a buffet of languages, challenges, and opportunities for getting started with telemetry data. The project is called openTelemetry, but before diving into the specifics, we’ll start with de-mystifying key concepts and terms such as observability, telemetry, instrumentation, cardinality, percentile to lay a foundation. After understanding the nuts and bolts of observability and distributed traces, we’ll explore the openTelemetry community; its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), repositories, and how to become not only an end-user, but possibly a contributor.

Storytelling is as old as time itself…. Since the beginning of humankind, we share our experiences, we teach, we inspire, we relate to stories as told all around us. How can we learn to use this powerful mechanism to tell effective tales about our production environments when dealing with our management teams?

Learn how humans listen to stories (tales) more than they pay attention to pages of charts, dashboards, and data. If you want to learn how to make sure your message lands and how to effectively manage upwards in your organization, this is the session for you. Attendees will depart with a small yet powerful set of actionable examples that almost ensure your stories will capture your management's attention. One thing is certain, stories are being told, but what are your production stories and how can you become adept at telling them?

Are you interested in dipping your toes in the cloud native observability waters, but as an engineer you are not sure where to get started with tracing problems through your microservices and application landscapes on Kubernetes? Then this is the session for you, where we take you on your first steps in an active open-source project that offers a buffet of languages, challenges, and opportunities for getting started with telemetry data.

The project is called openTelemetry, but before diving into the specifics, we’ll start with de-mystifying key concepts and terms such as observability, telemetry, instrumentation, cardinality, percentile to lay a foundation. After understanding the nuts and bolts of observability and distributed traces, we’ll explore the openTelemetry community; its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), repositories, and how to become not only an end-user, but possibly a contributor.

As the event page states, it's going to be a lot of fun with four experts debating on the topic of 'When Does Kubernetes Make Sense?'.

The panel will work its way through three main questions:

When does Kubernetes make sense? Which situations have they personally seen? How is this changing? What has to change in tools, management or core K8s? How does it impact engineers? What skills are most helpful - and most overlooked?

There's a new kid on the block in the world of open source standards for dashboards and visualization of your data. This session explores a free online workshop that gets you started hands-on learning about the Perses project and the best part is that attendees work through it at their own pace at home after the session. This session will share details, showing attendees where to find the workshop, help with understanding its layout, and if time permits, completing one or two labs live on stage together. Join me for 30 minutes of open source dashboarding power and discover the future of data visualization in getting started with Perses.

Eric Schabell, Director of Technical Marketing & Evangelism at Chronosphere discusses what data has to do with cloud native observability and takes you on a journey into the world of cloud native observability.

Episode #171: https://dataprotectiongumbo.com/171-your-first-steps-in-cloud-native-obs...

Whether you’re an enterprise migrating to cloud native or born in the cloud, most of today’s APM and Observability tools don’t support how your engineers and DevOps teams need to develop, deploy, and support their software. Observability needs to shift left and reflect the modern way companies organize their development teams and their vital interdependencies.

Chronosphere is the only vendor addressing the unique requirements for observability in a cloud native world. Join this webinar to learn:

- What cloud native observability is and how it is different from the promises made by traditional cloud APM and observability vendors

- How to use cloud native observability to do more “Dev” and less “Ops” so you can dramatically improve developer and engineer workflows and productivity

- How to make on-call shifts less stressful so your engineers aren’t getting burned out

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/eschabell/shift-left-observability

There are two primary approaches to scrape and collect metrics using Prometheus - using a centralized set of dedicated scrapers or decentralized scrapers that run as an agent. With centralized scraping, Prometheus is deployed as a central scraper to pull metrics from all discoverable endpoints and sometimes can be split across multiple centralized instances using a few different approaches. However, with a decentralized approach, Prometheus runs as an agent and in Kubernetes is deployed as a DaemonSet on each node in a cluster and only collects metrics from the node it runs on. Each model has pros and cons - especially when operating at large scale - which can make it difficult when deciding which model to use.

In this session, the speaakers will provide an overview of Prometheus metrics collection at DoorDash, where having highly reliable resources, easy en

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/eschabell/centralized-vs-decentralized-promet...

You've heard of large scale open source architectures, but have you ever wanted to take a serious look at real life enterprise edge implementations that scale? This session takes attendees on a tour of multiple use cases for enterprise challenges on the edge with integration, telco, healthcare, manufacturing, and much more. Not only are these architectures interesting, but they are successful real life implementations featuring open source technologies and power many of your own edge experiences.

The attendee departs this session with a working knowledge of how to map general open source technologies to their own edge solutions. Material covered is available freely online and attendees can use these solutions as starting points for aligning to their own solution architectures. Join us for an hour of power as we talk architecture shop!

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/eschabell/exploring-open-source-edge-success-...

Diagraming is one of the most important communication tools for sharing your project and architectural ideas to your colleagues and teams. In this workshop walkthrough, attendees are exposed to an open source tool we host online for designing architecture diagrams like an expert. Attendees are walked through the following in just 30 mins:

- open and explore the tooling in your favourite web browser
- explore the provided asset libraries for drag-and-drop designing
- learn about the three types of diagrams that make up a good design
- create your first simple logical diagram
- create your first simple schematic diagram
- create a detailed diagram
- how to import and export diagrams and elements from a diagram

This session is an introduction to the free online workshop available for attendees to jump right into after the session.

Video: https://youtu.be/oxUZQ8GIC04
Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/eschabell/designing-your-best-architectural-d...

ou've heard of large scale open source architectures, but have you ever wanted to take a serious look at these real life enterprise DevOps implementations that scale? This session takes attendees on a tour of multiple use cases covering DevOps challenges with hybrid cloud management with GitOps, DevOps in healthcare, and much more. Not only are these architectures interesting, but they are successful real life implementations featuring open source technologies and power many of your own online experiences. The attendee departs this session with a working knowledge of how to map general open source technologies to their solutions. Material covered is available freely online and attendees can use these solutions as starting points for aligning to their own solution architectures. Join us for an hour of power as we talk architecture shop!

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/eschabell/talking-architecture-shop-exploring...

You've heard of large scale open source architectures, but have you ever wanted to take a serious look at these real life enterprise implementations that scale? This session takes attendees on a tour of multiple use cases covering enterprise challenges like integration, optimisation, cloud adoption, hybrid cloud management, and much more. Not only are these architectures interesting, but they are successful real life implementations featuring open source technologies and power many of your own online experiences.
The attendee departs this session with a working knowledge of how to map general open source technologies to their solutions. Material covered is available freely online and attendees can use these solutions as starting points for aligning to their own solution architectures. Join us for an hour of power as we talk architecture shop!

DevOps is more than the process of automating your CI/CD pipelines to generate code and deployment artifacts for production. It's also about organizational change and integration of many subtle processes that help you to deliver applications seamlessly from development to production through your operations.

Let's unlock the power of process integration with a getting started walk through of a free online hands-on workshop that adds advanced automation to your devops toolbox. We'll take you through the integration of an organizational process as part of your DevOps strategy. Step-by-step you'll learn how to build a data model, create an automated process, integrate user approval tasks, and more using modern open source process automation tooling.

No experience in automation integration is required. Join us for a short session that helps you in adding a new tool to your devops toolbox.

There are so many ways and so much content out there to get you started with open source rules and process automation tooling by Red Hat, so where do you start?

How about spending an hour with Eric D. Schabell, taking a tour on where, why and how to get started from installation, hands-on workshops, all the way to cloud-native container-based fun?

We'll share insights and answer any questions you might have on getting started, scaling projects up for real organizations, and more. You'll walk away from this session with a list of content that's enjoyable to work with and can help you get started on projects today.

Speaking to an audience is as old as time itself…. Since the beginning of humankind, we share our experiences, we teach, we inspire, we relate to stories as told all around us. They are told by elders, they are told by kids at the dinner table, they are written down in books, and they are captured on video or tape. One thing is certain, stories are being told, but what are your stories and how can you become adept at telling them? The problem is you're feeling insecure and unsure on stage or in that big meeting where you have to sway an audience with your story. Do you feel like you're losing them after five or ten minutes? In this session the attendee discovers five simple and easy to apply changes that she can start using immediately to improve their engagement factor. Find out what five traits you've been abusing. Find out that they're right in front of your eyes but you can't see them. Join this session and you'll soon stop putting your audiences to sleep!

Are you all in on the concept of agile integration or just getting your toe in the water? Are you an expert or just getting started with concepts like integration, microservices, message integration, process integration, APIs, and all the things that make your customers experience the best it can be? In this breakout session, there's something for all levels.

We'll:

• Walk you through the architecture concepts with whiteboard diagrams, easy-to-grasp images, with a bottom-up approach to connecting the dots of integration architecture concepts.

• Take a look at an integration architecture blueprint based on 3 successful customer integration solutions.

• Present research results on these solution architectures for a clear blueprint for matching them to your own architectures or helping solidify your plans for architecting successful integration solutions.

It's not coincidence. It's not luck. It's not going to happen by itself, so what's the secret sauce? Understanding what makes a career in open source grow, what choices are crucial, and what actions accelerate or damage your future are sometimes hard to grasp. Learning to position, expand and grow your personal brand in the open source world is what this session provides. Be ready for your next step in open source. Join me for a story sharing a clear and easy to use plan for jump starting your open source career immediately.

The daily hype is all around you. From cloud, hybrid cloud, to hybrid multicloud, you’re told this is the way to ensure a digital future for your business. These choices you’ve got to make don’t preclude the daily work of enhancing your customer's experience and agile delivery of those applications. Let us take you on a journey, looking closely at what hybrid multicloud means for your business, the decisions being made about delivering applications, and dealing with legacy applications, likely the most important resources to your business. Join us for an hour of power, where real customer experiences are used to highlight the three top lessons learned as they transitioned into hybrid multicloud environments.

DevOps is more than the process of automating your CI/CD pipelines to generate code and deployment artifacts for production. It’s also about organizational change and integration of many subtle processes that help you deliver applications seamlessly from development to production through your operations.
Let’s unlock the power of process integration with a hands-on workshop using your own devices (laptops). We’ll take you through the integration of an organizational process as part of your DevOps strategy. Step-by-step you’ll build a domain model, creating an automated process, integrating user approval tasks and more using modern open source process automation tooling. No experience in automation integration is required. Let’s add a new tool to your development toolbox and get you jump started on automation integration that’s supporting your organisations DevOps activities.

It's not coincidence. It's not luck. It's not going to happen by itself, so what's the secret sauce? Understanding what makes a career in open source grow, what choices are crucial, and what actions accelerate or damage your open source future are sometimes hard to grasp. Learning to position, expand and grow your personal brand in the open source world is what this session provides. Be ready for your next step in open source. Join me for an hour of power where you'll be given a clear and easy to use plan for jump starting your open source career immediately.

You’ve heard that the hybrid multicloud is the path to a digitally successful future for your organization. Back by popular demand, this session builds on the original 3 pitfalls everyone should avoid with hybrid multicloud (https://youtu.be/eACHhV_uxTE) and brings 3 new revelations from real customer experiences.

In the first session, we shared some hybrid multicloud pitfalls that just scratched the surface. Let’s take a look at a few more pitfalls on the road to hybrid multicloud for your business as you deliver applications, deal with legacy applications, and make important decisions for your cloud strategies. Join us for 3 more lessons learned from real-life transitions into hybrid multicloud environments.

The daily hype is all around you. Microservices are a necessary step along the path to integration for a digitally successful future for your organization. The choices you’ve got to make don’t preclude the daily work of enhancing your customer’s experiences. From containers, cloud, multicloud, and beyond, microservices are the core infrastructure ensuring your organization's flexibility in the digital world. Join us for an hour of power, where real customer experiences are used to highlight the three top lessons as they transitioned their integration infrastructure into modern day microservices.

It's not magic. It's not luck. It's not going to happen by itself, so what's the secret sauce? Understanding what makes a career in open source grow, what choices are crucial, and what actions accelerate or damage your open source future are sometimes hard to grasp. Learning to position, expand and grow your personal brand in the open source world is what this session provides. Be ready for your next step in open source. Join me for an hour of power where you'll be given a clear and easy to use plan for jump starting your open source career immediately.

Developers are no longer just coders in the background but are front and center of an organization’s digital transformation efforts. While technology is driving change with open source projects, new tooling, containers and clouds offerings galore, it's still about people and organizational culture. Join us as we discover how developers are the real emerging technology today and the most important assets of all.

Lightning talk given in 10 minutes, getting a container-based Cloud development platform installed in just minutes.