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AWS Example Observability Stack

This is a Kubernetes cluster running on AWS instrumented for OpenTelemetry.

Work in progress. This stack is managed using AWS CDK.

Requirements

• AWS CDK
• Lightstep
• nginx plus image in private repo (if using nginx plus)

Deploying

  # Set LS_ACCESS_TOKEN to send data to Lightstep
  $ export LS_ACCESS_TOKEN=...
  # Set secret for access to private Docker registry with your nginx plus image (optional)
  $ export DOCKER_CONFIG_BASE64=...
  # Install cloud dependencies for CDK (only needed first time)
  $ cdk bookstrap
  # Deploy this stack
  $ cdk deploy

Useful commands

• npm run build compile typescript to js
• npm run watch watch for changes and compile
• npm run test perform the jest unit tests
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template