During the last years we’ve worked hard to bring cloud native operations capabilities for your Camel workloads on Kubernetes. Camel K was the first historic initiative and it gave us the possibility to experiment several features that we’ve decided to move off into a brand new project: Camel Monitor Operator (formerly known as Camel Dashboard operator). Whilst Camel K will keep the focus and excel on the building and deploying part of a Camel application on the cloud, the goal of the new project is to focus on the monitoring part only.
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With Camel K version 2.9 we have enhanced the GitOps capability of the operator to run a builtin opinionated GitOps strategy. In this blog we are going to expand with a complete example and show how to enabled with a sample Camel application we build on an environment and we promote to another environment controlled with a gateway. The process will be the following: a development team (the “citizen integrator”?) is in charge to develop and test a given Camel application on a development environment.
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Observability is a pillar of any distributed Microservices oriented architecture. As the number of services to govern may rise in number, it’s very important to have a clear and easy way to understand (observe) what’s going on in a distributed system at any time. And this feature become even more important when you’re running your application in the cloud. What is Observability from Camel perspective The term Observability is often used with a wide perspective and may provide misunderstanding about what it really encompass.
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We already explained how to take monitor your Integrations in the previous blog post about monitoring operations on Camel K. The good news is there are only a few changes with the move to Micrometer Metrics. From Microprofile to Micrometer Camel K 2.0 was the occasion to move from one technology (Microprofile) to another (Micrometer) for the Prometheus trait configuration implementation. The reason is the deprecation notice from Quarkus Microprile’s implementation in favor of using Micrometer Metrics.
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Tracing is an important approach for controlling and monitoring the experience of users, it allows us to gather more information about an integration’s performance. Camel K has been providing support for distributed tracing using OpenTracing since long time. At the beginning of 2022, the CNCF announced that they were archiving the OpenTracing project in favor of the OpenTelemetry project. OpenTelemetry is the latest solution created by merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus. As a result, we decided in Camel K 1.
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In Camel K version 10, we’ve released the CLI `promote feature that provides Camel K an opinionated way of promoting an Integration through the stages of software development. This feature unlock the possibility to combine Camel K with external tooling and let the user develop according to any automated release process. We always ear about CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and/or Deployment), and in this blog we’re going to see how to make it for any Camel K integration.
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