Grafana, with Torkel Ödegaard

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Episode | Podcast

Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:04:41 +0000

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/torkelo">Torkel Ödegaard</a> is the creator and project lead of Grafana, and co-founder of Grafana Labs. Learn how Torkel went from modding video games to building a data visualization platform, and co-founding a company that is now offering a complete monitoring service built on Prometheus.</p> <p>Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:</p> <ul> <li>web: <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com">kubernetespodcast.com</a></li> <li>mail: <a href="mailto:kubernetespodcast@google.com">kubernetespodcast@google.com</a></li> <li>twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kubernetespod">@kubernetespod</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="chatter-of-the-week">Chatter of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Basis_of_Sex">On The Basis Of Sex</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBG_(film)">RBG</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Picard">Star Trek: Picard</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="news-of-the-week">News of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14386">CVE-2020-14386</a></li> <li><a href="https://gvisor.dev/blog/2020/09/18/containing-a-real-vulnerability/"> gVisor: Containing a real vulnerability</a> by Fabricio Voznika</li> <li><a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/ibm-cloud-code-engine"> Announcing IBM Cloud Code Engine</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mirantis.com/blog/docker-enterprise-container-cloud-continuously-updated-multi-cloud-kubernetes/"> Docker Enterprise Container Cloud</a></li> <li><a href="https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/252489220/Mirantis-rethinks-Docker-Swarm-vs-Kubernetes"> Mirantis rethinks Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes</a> by Beth Pariseau</li> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/110-mirantis/">Episode 110, with Adrian Ionel</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/09/16/toc-approves-kubeedge-as-incubating-project/"> KubeEdge approved as CNCF incubating project</a></li> <li><a href="https://segment.com/blog/kubernetes-configuration/">kubeapply and Kubernetes configuration at Segment</a></li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/blog/2020/09/17/introducing-grafana-metrics-enterprise-a-prometheus-as-a-service-solution-for-enterprise-scale/"> Introducing Grafana Metrics Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.purestorage.com/company/newsroom/faq/pure-storage-to-acquire-portworx.html"> Pure Storage to acquire Portworx</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://portworx.com/pure-acquires-portworx/">Portworx acquired by Pure Storage</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://siliconangle.com/2020/09/21/ionir-exits-stealth-promise-instant-data-mobility-kubernetes-apps/"> Ionir exits stealth and promises instant data mobility</a></li> <li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/netapp-cloud-volumes-service-powered-by-gke"> NetApp Cloud Volumes Service powered by GKE</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/csi-storage-drivers">AKS adds CSI driver for Files and Disks</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openshift.com/blog/introducing-red-hat-data-services-with-openshift-container-storage-4.5"> Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.5</a></li> <li>VMware Tanzu: <ul> <li><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/09/announcing-vsphere-with-tanzu.html"> Announcing vSphere with Tanzu</a></li> <li>One of <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/simplify-your-approach-to-application-modernization-with-4-simple-editions-for-the-tanzu-portfolio"> four new editions</a></li> <li><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2020/09/15/announcing-vsan-data-persistence-platform/"> vSAN Data Persistence Platform</a></li> <li><a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-mission-control-expands-its-policy-management-capabilities"> Mission Control expands policy management capabilities</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.sentinelone.com/press/sentinelone-announces-automated-application-control-for-cloud-and-container-security/"> SentinelOne announce automated applicaiton control for containers</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/09/17/16-cncf-interns-graduate-from-summer-of-code-gsoc-2020/"> 16 CNCF interns graduate from Google Summer of Code</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/09/16/gsoc20-building-operators-for-cluster-addons/"> Building operators for cluster add-ons</a> by Somtochi Onyekwere</li> </ul> </li> <li>CFPs open for <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/servicemeshcon-north-america/program/cfp/"> ServiceMeshCon</a> and <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-native-security-day-north-america/program/cfp/"> Cloud Native Security Day</a> North America</li> <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/09/16/year-of-kubernetes/">A Year of Kubernetes at GitLab</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/089-gitlab/">Episode 89, with Marin Jankovski</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="links-from-the-interview">Links from the interview</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble">The 2001 dot-com crash</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Arena_(mod)">Rocket Arena</a> mod for Quake 3</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing">Extreme ironing</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.tradera.com/">Tradera</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.itcontracting.com/">IT contracting</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month">The Mythical Man Month</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://graphiteapp.org/">Graphite</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/kibana">Kibana</a></li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/">Grafana</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/grafana/grafana">GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/blog/2019/09/03/the-mostly-complete-history-of-grafana-ux/"> The history of Grafana UX</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/">Grafana Labs</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/about/team/">Team</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://kausal.co/">Kausal</a></li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/oss/cortex/">Cortex</a></li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/oss/loki/">Loki</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Reports">Crystal Reports</a></li> <li>Interesting use cases: <ul> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/blog/2020/05/21/grafanaconline-day-6-recap-the-power-of-tanka-and-a-peek-into-the-world-of-beehive-monitoring-with-grafana-dashboards/"> Beehive monitor</a></li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/blog/2019/05/13/using-grafana-to-monitor-ems-ambulance-service-operations/"> Hospital queue visualisation</a></li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/monitoringartist-monitoringart-datasource"> Monitoring Art plugin</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/about/press/2020-08-17-series-b-announcement/"> A $50m Series B funding round</a></li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/products/metrics-enterprise/">Grafana Metrics Enterprise</a></li> <li>Recommended reading: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasm_City">Chasm City</a> by Alastair Reynolds</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/torkelo">Torkel Ödegaard</a> on Twitter</li> </ul>