The Shopping List

This chapter gradually introduced many moving parts, so here’s a checklist of the things you might need. Remember that not every organization needs everything on this list. Apply a cost/benefit trade-off view toward each.

• Log collection and search
• Metrics collection and visualization
• Deployment
• Configuration service
• Instance placement
• Instance and system visualization
• Scheduling
• IP, overlay network, firewall, and route management
• Autoscaler
• Alerting and notification