Platform Engineering - Use Case

Description

Scenario that demonstrates a reference IDP (Internal Development Platform) that provides self-service onboarding of new applications on a k8s cluster with automated best-practices for Dynatrace observability.

Those best practices include

• Automatic Synthetic Tests for deployed application
• Automatic Ownership and Release Metadata on deployed workloads
• Automatic Deployment Events that allow triggering of an SRG upon a deployment change
• Automatic Service Level Objectives for new app
• Automatic push of relevant Dynatrace data back to the engineer, e.g: Backstage, Slack

Here are the tools that make up the reference IDP:

• Backstage as the IDP
• GitLab as the Git System with projects for the platform and application templates
• ArgoCD as the GitOps Operator
• Keptn to provide additional deployment insights
• ArgoRollouts for progressive rollouts
• ArgoWorkflows to trigger Monaco to push Dynatrace configuration

Guide

This is still work in progress and will be delivered for the HOT (Hands-On Training) Day at Perform 2025

Version and compatibility

Please add a note pointing out which versions of the external use case are compatible with the respective ACE-Box versions:

Release	Verified against ace-box version
v0.9.3	v1.27.0
v0.9.5	v1.28.0

Extra variables

No extra variables needed

DTU provisioning

When an ACE-Box with external use case is provisioned by the DTU team, make sure to grant read access to the Github ace-box-dtu team. This allows them to source the use case during their provisioning process.

Additional optional configuration

Here some additional OpenPipeline Configuration to correctly parse the log status from the simplenodeservice demo application.

Pipeline: OTel Simplenode Ingest

• DQL Processor: Parse Log Legel
  • Matching condition: isNotNull(content) and content != ""
  • DQL processor definition: parse content, "JSONTIMESTAMP ' - ' STRING:logstatus"
• Add fields: Add LogLevel for empty log lines
  • Matching condition: `isNull(content) or content == "" or content == " "``
  • Fields: logstatus:Empty

Dynamic Route: otel simplenode

• Matching condition: matchesPhrase(k8s.namespace.name,"simplenodeservice")