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OpenTelemetry distributed tracing and metrics can provide powerful standards-based observability tools for your microservices applications, and Linkerd can now support OpenTelemetry directly rather than requiring translating from OpenCensus. In this Service Mesh Academy, we'll do a deep dive into the OpenTelemetry world with special guest Michele Mancioppiof Dash0, digging into how OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics work, how Linkerd interacts with them, and - sadly - why the extension is still called `linkerd-jaeger`. We'll finish off with a live demo of distributed tracing; join us to learn what's what with OpenTelemetry and get answers for all your distributed-tracing questions!
This is a hands-on workshop, so it's important that you arrive prepared with a Kubernetes cluster, local Backstage workspace, and the Linkerd CLI installed on your machine! We'll use BEL 2.17. Check out the BEL Getting Started Guide for specific instructions on how to set that up.(If you don't want to do the hands-on portion, you are welcome to just listen in. But it won't be as fun!)
Michele is the Head of Product at Dash0, and considers himself a man of simple tastes: he likes boring software, and powerful and easy observability. Former full-stack engineer turned product manager, he is known to moonlight by coding tracing instrumentation, Kubernetes operators and Infrastructure-as-Code integrations for observability.
Flynn is a tech evangelist at Buoyant, where he works on spreading the good word about Linkerd — the graduated CNCF service mesh that makes the fundamental tools for software security and reliability freely available to every engineer — and about Kubernetes and cloud-native development in general. Flynn is also the original author and a maintainer of the Emissary-ingress API gateway, also a CNCF project.
Flynn's career in computing spans nearly forty years and runs the gamut from bringup on bare metal to distributed applications, with a common thread of communications and security throughout. He has spoken about Linkerd, Emissary-ingress, and other cloud native technologies at several conferences, including KubeCon/CloudNativeCon, DevOps Days, and the NYC Kubernetes meetup.
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