Last week we looked at Status Dashboards, how they show a snapshot in time of the system, using simple widgets like Stat Panel or Gauge and how they should be based on clear KPIs.

In this post, we will look at T&T Dashboards.

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Let’s talk about dashboards, shall we?

It’s not uncommon in my work to work on Monitoring or Observability problems.

A team or multiple teams deploy their applications in one of the environments, we can assume production, and they want to know how the System behaves.

The evolution I’ve seen is:

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I’m a nerd; I’ll not deny it. I love to explore new things, run experiments and learn from them.

I want a stable system to backup my data, be it pictures, videos, documents etc. I want a place to install and run software that I want to test and possibly have it at hand reach when needed.

I want everything in my network to work over SSL, and I want to have the ability to serve different services on different subdomains of a well-known domain so that my family can reach them without having to know an IP address.

After a couple of years of experimenting, I finally found something that works.

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Helm (helm.sh) defines itself as The package manager for Kubernetes, at first I thought that was a bold statement, but after thinking about it for a moment, I don’t think I know any other real package manager.

Let’s look together at the functionalities that make Helm a package manager.

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