I recently was gifted a few Dell Micro computer that I plan on using as my homelab in order to try different technologies and train myself on them. In order to do so I wanted to setup a fully working Puppet environment. I chose to go full DevOps on it and create a full system with a complete CI/CD which allows me to write Puppet code on my laptop and have it automatically deployed on the master server once commited....
As an SRE/DevOps Engineer, most of my work is heavily relying on some kind of monitoring solution. Knowing this I’m always interested in seeing what new solutions have to offer. To this day, and to the exception of SignalFX (now called Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring), I’ve always worked with basic and kind of old school solution such as Nagios, Zabbix, Centreon or CheckMK. Because now I’m working in a more cloud oriented job I wanted to see what was about the well-known “cloud native” solution that is Prometheus....