New Live Course Registration for March 20th, 2023: GitHub Actions and Argo CD for K8sBret is joined by Natan Yellin, the co-founder of Robusta.dev to talk Kubernetes and Prometheus monitoring, alerting, and maybe some CPU limit ranting. Robusta tries to fill the gap left by Kubernetes' own AlertManager which has a very specific and not so helpful way of decribing events in your cluster. This makes it hard to diagnose the cause of the event and you're left with Google, StackOverflow and an awful lot of head-scratching. Robusta acts as a proxy between AlertManager and your notification platform of choice.In the show we talk about what Robusta is, how to deploy it in your clusters, and Natan also details some of the enhancements in their cloud offering that you can layer on top of that, which has a generous free tier.Streamed live on YouTube on January 5, 2023.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep. #197). Includes demos.★Topics★Robusta WebsiteRobusta on GitHubKubeCon - Building a Runbook Automation System for Prometheus and KubernetesStop using K8s CPU limitsRecommended Pod SpecSend Push notifications to your phonePrometheus AlertManagerGrafana LabsKubewatch★Natan Yellin★Natan on TwitterNatan on LinkedIn★Join my Community★New live course on CI automation and gitops deploymentsBest coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our Discord Server DevOps FansGrab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:04) - Intro
(03:16) - In today's episode
(05:22) - Main show
(05:50) - Introducing Natan
(06:16) - Alert fatigue
(06:52) - Where did the idea for Robusta come from?
(10:39) - Someone has to do the job
(11:40) - What does Robusta offer?
(12:48) - Proxying the alerts and providing context
(13:53) - Saving 10 to 30 minutes
(16:11) - The open source Robusta repo
(16:33) - The need to de-aggregate event data
(17:32) - Example or demo
(18:02) - Question about observability for microservices
(21:01) - Tip 1 Consider using silences
(22:12) - Tip 2 Monitor outcomes
(22:46) - Don't ignore alerts because of fatigue
(25:36) - Sending to different channels based on priority
(27:05) - Question about sending messages to destinations
(28:40) - Question
(29:12) - Installing Robusta
(30:05) - Demo set up commands
(30:17) - Questions
(30:34) - Demo Kubernetes-specific
(31:28) - Multi-cluster question
(33:55) - What does the SaaS platform do?
(35:07) - Demo with SaaS
(36:00) - kubectl not recommended
(37:26) - Breaking the glass
(40:38) - Question about notifications
(42:37) - Getting started
(43:47) - CPU limiting
(44:38) - Soft limits on CPU in Kubernetes
(46:58) - Bret's pod spec
(51:45) - Outro

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