The document discusses monitoring Kubernetes in Rancher using InfluxData. It provides an introduction to Rancher and how it can deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters. It then discusses the time series data problem and how InfluxData solutions like Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf and Kapacitor can collect, store and analyze the high volume time series data generated by containers. It highlights key features of Rancher and InfluxData and demonstrates how their tools can be used together to monitor Kubernetes workloads.

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An introduction to Rancher and how to handle time series data in container orchestration with InfluxData
12 SEP 2017
Monitoring Kubernetes in Rancher

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Our Speakers Today
William Jimenez
Solution Architect
Gunnar Aasen
Partner Engineering

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Agenda
¨Introduction to Rancher
¨Getting started with K8s on Rancher
¨Understanding the time-series problem
¨Introduction to InfluxData
¨Demo
¨Q & A

4. Rancher Labs Introduction

5. Complete Container Management Solution

6. Rancher Highlights
• Unified approach to running containers on-prem or in the cloud
• Powerful REST API for automating the end-to-end container
lifecycle
• Enterprise controls such as RBAC and audit logging with
integration into common authentication providers such as AD,
SAML, LDAP.
• Automated Kubernetes deployments and upgrades
• Integrations with storage technologies such as EBS/NFS/NetApp,
etc.

7. How Rancher Works

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What makes time-series unique
¨Needs fast ingestion of data
¨High & low precision data have different retention policy
¨Software agent or DB must be able to compute
¨Unique & changing time query
Containers generating huge data load
¨Regular vs. irregular
¨Containers themselves + components within
Understanding the time series problem

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Time to metrics… graphs… value…
¨Primary developers of InfluxDB
¨Created the TICK stack: platform for time series
¨Telegraf and Chronograf fully open source
¨InfluxDB and Kapacitor open core
¨Single nodes scale to 1 million points ingested per second
¨Enterprise clustered and high availability solution
¨InfluxCloud managed platform
¨Rolling out more Rancher
Introduction

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Platform Components
Telegraf
¨Collection of metrics and events
¨Many input plugins, deployed to worker nodes
InfluxDB
¨High performance time-series database
Chronograf
¨Graphing UI for InfluxDB & Kapacitor
Kapacitor
¨Metrics processing and alerting engine

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Demo

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Learn More
URL or other notes on where to find further info.
URL or other notes on where to find further info.
https://www.influxdata.com/blog/kubernetes-monitoring-and-autoscaling-wi
th-telegraf-and-kapacitor/
http://rancher.com/kubernetes/
https://github.com/rancher/rancher#installation

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Q & A?