From 69ee6318a5f6d293f2c9a2c3bfd2dfd371af228b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Li Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 08:10:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update content/en/blog/_posts/2021-02-27-annotating-k8s-for-humans.md Co-authored-by: Tim Bannister --- content/en/blog/_posts/2021-02-27-annotating-k8s-for-humans.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/en/blog/_posts/2021-02-27-annotating-k8s-for-humans.md b/content/en/blog/_posts/2021-02-27-annotating-k8s-for-humans.md index 9a0c166421..ddf0bca364 100644 --- a/content/en/blog/_posts/2021-02-27-annotating-k8s-for-humans.md +++ b/content/en/blog/_posts/2021-02-27-annotating-k8s-for-humans.md @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ As the number of microservices and annotations proliferate, running `kubectl des Historically, service catalogs have not been a key piece of infrastructure, as applications consisted of a single monolith. Today, with distributed development and microservices the norm, service catalogs are increasingly being adopted as a best practice. Some popular options today include Backstage and Ambassador. [Backstage](https://backstage.io/) is a highly flexible project ideal for organizations that wish to customize every aspect of their service catalog, while [Ambassador](https://www.getambassador.io/products/service-catalog) provides a turnkey, cloud-hosted solution that can be set up quickly. ## Annotate Your Services Now and Thank Yourself Later -Much like implementing observability within microservice systems, you often don’t realize that you need human service discovery until it’s too late. Typically, something is on fire in production and you wished you had implemented better metrics and also specified which Slack channel the owning team lived in within your organization. +Much like implementing observability within microservice systems, you often don’t realize that you need human service discovery until it’s too late. Don't wait until something is on fire in production to start wishing you had implemented better metrics and also documented how to get in touch with the part of your organization that looks after it. There's enormous benefits to building an effective “[version 0](https://www.getambassador.io/learn/kubernetes-glossary/version-0/)” of any service: a “[dancing skeleton](https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-management/dancing-skeleton-apis-and-microservices/)” application with a thin slice of complete functionality that can be deployed to production with a minimal yet effective continuous delivery pipeline.