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The Observability Stack is a pre-packaged distribution of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces that can be installed on any Kubernetes cluster. It includes many popular open source observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Promlens, TimescaleDB, and others. Together, these provide a maintainable solution for analyzing traffic on a server and identifying any potential problems with a deployment. Follow this guide to install TOBS on a Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) cluster using Helm with access via kubectl port-forwarding.

Learn how to deploy a production-ready Django application using Linode Managed Databases for MySQL, GitHub Actions, and more. Get step-by-step instructions in the newly expanded ebook and use it as a guide for a new video tutorial series on Linode LIVE! Get an introduction on using Django to do the heavy lifting for SQL on our blog.

The VLAN service is a recent addition to our London data center, expanding the ability to create private Layer 2 networks for secure communications across your instances. Learn more about VLANs on the recent blog post, Going Private with VLANs and VPCs, or add this free service to your network now.

These open source, self-managed, free projects from HashiCorp can now be deployed on Linode from our Marketplace. Nomad creates a simple, flexible scheduler and orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized apps. Vault secures, stores, and controls access to sensitive data. Deploy now on Cloud Manager.

This guide discusses the key benefits and drawbacks of hosting your own VPN and explains how to set one up.

This article explores how users and workloads are authenticated with the Kubernetes API server.