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• Production readiness is the state of a system that is fully prepared and capable of running product workloads and providing the level of service and performance required by its users.
• Vanilla Kubernetes provides the basic framework for running and managing container workloads, but production readiness requires more than just putting an application in a container and writing some YAML files.
• There are various options for achieving production readiness, and the choice depends on factors such as the need for in-house skill, the desire for fast deployment, and the willingness to pay for managed solutions.
• Going with the highest abstraction possible and not trying to solve problems that others have already solved is generally recommended.
• Monitoring and observability are crucial for ensuring production readiness and enabling predictive analysis.
• The ultimate goal of production readiness is to make users happy by providing reliable, stable, secure, performant, adaptive, and observable services.

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• Structured logging with key-value pairs and references to Kubernetes objects
• Contextual logging to retain context from parent to leaf and share information between different go routines
• API changes required for implementation
• Goal is not to remove Klog and Klog will remain in use

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• Loki is a log aggregation system that can help manage logs in a distributed system
• Managing logs in a distributed system can be challenging due to the large number of logs and the need to optimize chunk size
• Query parallelization and horizontal scaling can help improve query performance and reduce costs
• Monitoring and auditing cardinality is important to ensure system health
• Tools like Prometheus and Tempo can also help address similar challenges in observability

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• CNI is the container networking interface that provides an API for networking plugins to manipulate pod sandboxes
• Debugging CNI plugins in production requires a toolbox of tools and techniques
• CNI tool is a useful tool for debugging CNI plugins
• CNI 2.0 needs to address the need for better debugging capabilities

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• Community feedback is crucial in the development of Fluent Bit, and most of the features are a result of feedback from users.
• Investment in ensuring memory safety and testing is a priority, with a focus on CI/CD regression checks and sanitization.
• Fluent Bit has been extended to include metrics and traces, with a focus on making it easier for users to integrate with other ecosystems.
• Logs are unstructured data that can be processed and filtered to reduce data or send it to multiple locations.
• Metrics are important for monitoring and analyzing data, and Fluent Bit has its own way of monitoring and ingesting metrics.
• Fluent Bit metrics can be exposed over Prometheus or ingested as part of the pipeline.
• Traces are also important for debugging and troubleshooting, and Fluent Bit has been extended to include traces.

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• Fluent Bit is part of the Fluent ecosystem and is used widely by companies such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure
• Fluent Bit was designed with performance and optimization in mind for the cloud native ecosystem
• Buffer management is important for optimizing how data is stored between memory and file system
• Fluent Bit uses binary formats instead of JSON for better performance
• Fluent Bit is stable and reliable, with an average of two million deployments per day