Technical requirements
Deploying a monitoring platform that conforms to the observability tenet is not difficult. Since we wanted accessibility over wider features, we selected open source software in most cases for this monitoring system. When open source software was not available, we have chosen a software that has a free offer so that anyone can gain practical knowledge from this chapter.
You will need the following for the lab:
- A laptop with access to the internet
- An account on a cloud service provider (we recommend Google Cloud Platform (GCP))
- The
kubectl
CLI tool installed on your laptop
All manifest files, scripts, and application code can be found on the public GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Becoming-a-Rockstar-SRE/blob/main/Chapter04.