Scaling Observability: Harnessing the Power of Operators in Kubernetes

Having to manually configure monitoring for each application in a Kubernetes cluster is a daunting task. How does the Dynatrace Operator Team allow users to inject their applications in a cloud native way and how did this evolve until today?

At first enabling injection for containers was done by hooking into the container runtime, which is invisible to cluster administrators. It requires breaking out of the container and modifying the underlying host file system. The challenge we have taken on is to use a more transparent and secure way to achieve the same user experience.

If you want to know what’s possible with Operators and learn about our challenges during development, don’t miss this opportunity to learn from Dynatrace’s real-world experiences. Learn how the configuration changed from manual configuration on a pod level to utilising the operator concept for managing components, a Mutating Webhook to modify application pods and a CSI driver to optimise downloads and storage!