The Edge of Observability: How Chick-fil-A Observes a Fleet of 2800 Restaurant-deployed K8s Clusters

Brian Chambers and Alex Crane, Chick-fil-a
Chick-fil-A runs an edge deployment of 2,800 Kubernetes clusters across our fleet of restaurants. With such a large distributed footprint running in a highly constrained environment, numerous challenges arise. One of those is observability. In this session, you’ll learn how we gather, exfiltrate, and leverage first-class metrics and utilize a “just-enough at just-the-right-time” logging approach. We’ll also share how our platform fans out logs to many internal customers.

[@muskheadroom]

What the, why does a chicken restaurant need engineering?

[@nyahhbinghi]

awkward first speaker

[@andrewm4894]

Interesting talk

[@white.rabbit]

Although this is not the main topic of the talk, but I was wondering what the motivation was to choose k3s over other alternatives, say, something like microk8s.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Excellent video

[@MRSketch09]

Well this was fascinating!

[@vidopnir]

Do they run `kubectl apply -f homophobia.yml`?

[@shjohnson2941]

Nice!!