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2016

Docker 1.13 Prometheus end-point and qcollect

Docker 1.13 is on it's way and I like what comes to light.

The highlights from where I stand are:

  • service port publishing now as mode host or ingress, which allows for service ports to be outside of the IPVS load-balancer and just exposed on the SWARM node.
  • the load-balancer seems to honour established connections
  • experimental has an end-point /metrics, which exposes Prometheus formatted metrics.

And this last bit got me interested. So much, though, that I hacked a Prometheus collector into qcollect. :)

Hello World of qcollect

A while back I stumbled upon Fullerite, a GOLANG metrics collector, which can reuses the collectors of the python Diamond collector.

One of the issues I had was, that it is not using the event time, but the process time of collected metrics. Thus, if you want to bulk update collected metrics, they will all have the same timestamp of the time they are push to the metrics backend.

Consul as a (Docker) Service

After a couple of month being busy, it's time for a blog post about Docker Services.

As I stated often - I became a big fan of Consul for service orchestration, service discovery and as a K/V store in my docker stacks.

Since Docker Engine 1.11 the necessary DNS feature to be able to use a 127.0.0.1 address was somewhat kicked, so I had a hard nut to crack. My workaround was to not care about local resolution and use the consul servers as DNS resource. Anyway...

ISC2016 Workshop: Linux Containers to Optimise IT Infrastructure for HPC & BigData

This years 'Linux Container' workshop at the ISC 2016 is called: Docker: Linux Containers to Optimise IT Infrastructure for HPC & BigData.

It was held after the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt on June 23rd at the Marriott hotel.

Unlike last year the focus was to provide actionable knowledge about the world of Linux Containers, discuss problems and possible solutions.

Consul Ambassador Pattern

Did I mention I love Open-Source software? I do - I really do! :) Using a pull request on Consul, I get closer to a nice setup: github isse

So what I am talking about here? As you readers should already know I use Consul as the backend for my service/node discovery stuff and user related topics.

FOSDEM #2 - IPoIB

This blob post goes through the different methods of connecting an HPC cluster in a box (within docker container) so that the network performance is worth the effort and all containers are addressable. It's going to talk about VXLAN, MACLAN and some pipework to glue them together.