CloudInspector – Visualize your applications vs SkyDNS

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SkyDNS

Stacks8

Followers23

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GitHub Stars2.2K

Forks304

CloudInspector – Visualize your applications

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Followers1

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SkyDNS	CloudInspector – Visualize your applications
SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services. It leverages Raft for high-availability and consensus, and utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights (more info here: http://blog.gopheracademy.com/skydns).	CloudInspector provides a high-level view of Kubernetes and Cloud environments by visualizing relationships and data flows across clusters without exposing sensitive application data. Built for regulated environments, it helps teams understand, operate, and govern complex cloud-native systems with confidence.
You announce your service by submitting JSON over HTTP to SkyDNS with information about your service. This information will then be available for queries either via DNS or HTTP.;SkyDNS requires that services submit an HTTP request to update their TTL within the TTL they last supplied. If the service fails to do so within this timeframe SkyDNS will expire the service automatically. This will allow for nodes to fail and DNS to reflect this quickly.;You can find services by querying SkyDNS via any DNS client or utility. It uses a known domain syntax with wildcards to find matching services.	Kubernetes observability, Service discovery, Incident analysis, Cloud asset management
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What are some alternatives to SkyDNS, CloudInspector – Visualize your applications?

Amazon CloudWatch

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Consul

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Eureka

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Stackdriver

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Zookeeper

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Lumigo

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Nomad

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Apache Mesos

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.

etcd

etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. It’s open-source and available on GitHub. etcd gracefully handles master elections during network partitions and will tolerate machine failure, including the master.