Cloud & DevOpsEnterprise Solution

2018-2019

CloudMOA Multi-Cloud K8s Platform

Kubernetes integrated monitoring solution

Project Overview

Complete CloudMOA system architecture design for integrated monitoring and management of Kubernetes clusters in multi-cloud environments. Built a pioneering solution in the K8s monitoring field that provides unified visibility and control across diverse cloud platforms and container orchestration environments.

Challenge

Needed to monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters across different cloud providers, provide unified visibility and control, implement fine-grained container and Pod-level monitoring, and ensure real-time performance optimization while building a scalable and cloud-neutral solution.

Solution

Multi-Cloud K8s Integration

Built architecture for integrated monitoring of Kubernetes clusters across various cloud environments from a single platform.

Cloud-neutral K8s API integration: Support for major clouds including AWS EKS, GKE, AKS
Unified dashboard: Single-view monitoring of all cluster states
Automatic cluster discovery: Auto-detection and registration of new clusters
Cross-cloud resource management: Integrated management of K8s resources across multiple clouds

Real-time Container Monitoring

Implemented system for collecting and analyzing real-time performance metrics and logs at Pod, container, and node levels.

Fine-grained resource monitoring: Real-time tracking of CPU, memory, network, storage
Log aggregation and analysis: Centralized collection and search of all container logs
Application performance monitoring: Performance and availability tracking of K8s applications
Intelligent alerts: Threshold-based automatic notifications and anomaly detection

Tech Stack

Kubernetes

Kubernetes API integration

Helm

Multi-cloud container management

Prometheus

Real-time metrics collection

Grafana

Log aggregation and analysis

Istio

Distributed monitoring system

AWS EKS

Visualization dashboard

GCP GKE

Automated alert system

Azure AKS

Performance optimization tools

Key Results

Achieved unified visibility for multi-cloud K8s environments
Significantly improved container and application monitoring accuracy
Enhanced K8s cluster operational efficiency and stability
Eliminated vendor lock-in with cloud-neutral monitoring solution

Learnings

K8s monitoring benefits from cloud-neutral approach for long-term flexibility
Real-time container monitoring is essential for microservices operations
Unified visibility in multi-cloud environments significantly reduces operational complexity
Integration with K8s native tools is key to effective monitoring
Louis Kim - Software Engineer