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Open-source tools to help you with Kubernetes-native development & testing

Whether you are a Developer, a Tester, or a DevOps, learn how to streamline your Kubernetes-based projects with Kubeshop tools.

Feb 28, 2023

16 min

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Tracetest in Action: Running Trace-Based Tests on the OpenTelemetry Demo App with Nomad

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Tracetest and the OTel Demo App on Nomad running locally using HashiQube. I will then show you how to create and run a simple test with Tracetest, using a couple of Traces from the OTel Demo App.

Top 8 Open-Source Observability & Testing Tools

As a back-end engineer, embracing the DevOps mindset and 'shift-left' mentality means more power and responsibility. Don't stop at code commit. Implement observability and testing tools to release high-quality code. Check out the open-source ecosystem for available tools!

Adnan Rahic

Sr. Developer Advocate

Announcing the Tracetest integration with Elastic: Trace-based testing meets application performance monitoring

Want to run trace-based tests with Elastic APM? Today is your lucky day. We're happy to announce that Tracetest now integrates with Elastic Observability APM.

Observability-driven development with Go and Tracetest

By the end of this in-depth, hands-on, tutorial you’ll learn observability-driven development, how to develop microservices with Go, and how to run trace-based tests with Tracetest.

Adnan Rahic

Sr. Developer Advocate

The difference between test-driven development and observability-driven development

We’re entering a new era of observability-driven development (ODD), which emphasizes using instrumentation in back-end code as assertions in tests. With Tracetest, you can generate E2E tests from OpenTelemetry-based traces, enforce quality—and encourage velocity—in even the most complex apps.

Adnan Rahic

Sr. Developer Advocate

Frontend Overhaul of OTel Demo: Go to Next.js

How Tracetest contributed to the OpenTelemetry Project by rewriting the older Go-based store front in Next.js. Discusses the technology choices & details of instrumenting the app.

Trace-Based Testing: The Next Step in Observability

While tools to enable Trace-Based Testing are new, the concept has been utilized & discussed since 2010. Read the what, why, and learn how you can utilize OTel tracing to supercharge your testing.

Tracetest 0.6 Release - gRPC, Postman and More

Tracetest released v0.6 introducing the ability to create tests based on gRPC or Postman Collections in addition to other new features.

Tracing the History of Distributed Tracing & OTel

A history of the birth of OpenTelemetry Tracing. From Dapper in 2010 to Zipkin, Jaeger, OpenTracing & OpenCensus, we discuss how the industry coalesced around OpenTelemetry over the last 14 years.