In this series we will be exploring how to set up a CI/CD pipeline to deploy websites and services to Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure DevOps. I’m going to be using Visual Studio 2019 with the Azure Development workload, you’re also going to need the Azure CLI and kubectl for future articles in this series. […]
This article will guide you through the steps required to setup OpenTSDB in Azure, we are going to be using Azure HDInsight to host our Hbase cluster and then setup OpenTSDB to connect to the cluster. The first thing we need to do is open the Azure portal and navigate to resource groups, once there […]
I recently had the need to allow access to an on-premise Azure Devops Server instance over the internet. This had been attempted in the past using apache as the reverse proxy but due to ADS using NTLM Authentication ADS (or TFS as it was at the time) would constantly prompt for credentials without really getting […]
Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this series can be found at the following locations: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. This is the second article in this series covering how to install Bosun in a production environment. The first article can be found here and covers the installation and configuration […]
Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this series can be found at the following locations: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Whenever I’ve written about Bosun in the past I’ve always used the official Bosun Docker image provided by Stack Exchange, this has been fine for demonstrations and examples however what […]
I have used and managed Azure DevOps Server (previous Team Foundation Server) for several years and now that my daily role includes doing more and more ‘DevOps’ stuff I decided it was time to look into load balancing ADS. I’ve previously looked at this a few years ago and found one out-of-date tutorial which used […]
This is the third part in a series of articles regarding Bosun, the first two parts can be found here and here. Now that you have Bosun running and logging metrics from Bosun Reporter and Scollector we should look at configuration! This article will cover configuration for Bosun running inside a Docker container, if you […]
I have previously written about how to send .net application data to Bosun however what if we wanted to send data from our OS to Bosun? Well for that we need Scollector! The first thing we need to do is download the correct binary for our OS, these can all be found on the Scollector […]
I recently stumbled across this interesting write-up by Nick Craver about how Stack Overflow do their monitoring. If you have any interest in DevOps or infrastructure in general I highly recommend giving it a read. One section caught my eye… Bosun. Bosun is a data collection tool for metrics and meta data, if you’ve read […]
I have been hosting this site internally for about a year now on a virtualised nginx instance, getting it up and running was a breeze but something always bugged me – I couldn’t access the site from within the local network. After a bit of digging around I found the problem… my router didn’t support […]