MatsJonsson

We've found Istio ( https://istio.io/ ) to be increasingly useful in this context. KubeSpy ( https://github.com/pulumi/kubespy )is an excellent tool for troubleshooting and diagnosing Kubernetes deployments.

+1 for Prometheus

We've done this with Ansible and Salt in a couple of big projects, only to end up with huge amounts of stuff just to get the actual stuff working. ##...

https://www.terraform.io/ is an excellent tool for "infrastructure as code". We use it to develop, spin up, update, upgrade and kill pretty large kubernetes/docker deployments.

> http://istio.io/ is a proxy manager / service mesh +1 for istio. Note that istio has very usedul trace/monitor/log features

There's actually a Content Delivery Network around where you can look behind the scenes. It's based on pretty much all the cool research, most of it available as production grade...

+1 for Kubernetes. We recommend Kelsey Hightower´s excellent introduction "Kubernetes the Hard Way", available on gihub https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way