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OpenTelemetry Blueprints Unveiled: Practical OTel Deployments for Kubernetes & Platform Engineering - OpenObservability Talks S6E12
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is now the industry standard for observability — but deploying it successfully at scale is still a major challenge. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we dive into the newly launched OpenTelemetry Blueprints initiative: a set of practical reference architectures designed to help Platform Engineering and SRE teams cut through the complexity.
We explore the first official blueprints for Kubernetes and traditional infrastructure environments, covering:
✅ How to standardize OTel Collector deployments
✅ Best practices for instrumentation at scale
✅ Building self-service observability platforms
✅ What these blueprints mean for Platform Engineering and SRE teams
Whether you're just starting your OpenTelemetry journey or trying to scale it across a large organization, this episode gives you a concrete, actionable framework to move faster and with more confidence.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/67db96d7e512/
🔔 Subscribe for monthly conversations on open-source observability, OTel, open source and cloud-native monitoring.
Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
03:05 - end-user pains with OpenTelemetry adoption
07:49 - enterprise org structure dictates OTel adoption patterns
12:56 - what’s the different between blueprints and reference implementations, and what can you expect of an OTel blueprint
19:46 - how blueprints balance OpenTelemetry’s flexibility with opinionation
23:11 - first blueprint: OpenTelemetry for traditional Environments, virtual machines, bare metal and non-Kubernetes
32:42 - second blueprint: OpenTelemetry for Kubernetes Workloads and managed telemetry
49:08 - third blueprint: Kubernetes monitoring with OpenTelemetry.
56:16 - roadmap for the OpenTelemettry blueprints initiative
1:00:01 - outro
Resources:
OTel Blueprints: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/guidance/
Blueprints intro blog: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/blueprints-intro/
OpAMP intro and updates: https://horovits.medium.com/operating-opentelemetry-at-scale-with-opamp-737b6af8222b
Dotan Horovits
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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits
Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon
BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social
Dan Gomez Blanco
================
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielgblanco86/
Mastodon: https://mas.to/@dan_gomezblanco
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dangb.me
Socials:
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social
X (Twitter): https://x.com/OpenObserv
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks
OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
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OpenTelemetry (OTel) is now the industry standard for observability — but deploying it successfully at scale is still a major challenge. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we dive into the newly launched OpenTelemetry Blueprints initiative: a set of practical reference architectures designed to help Platform Engineering and SRE teams cut through the complexity.
We explore the first official blueprints for Kubernetes and traditional infrastructure environments, covering:
✅ How to standardize OTel Collector deployments
✅ Best practices for instrumentation at scale
✅ Building self-service observability platforms
✅ What these blueprints mean for Platform Engineering and SRE teams
Whether you're just starting your OpenTelemetry journey or trying to scale it across a large organization, this episode gives you a concrete, actionable framework to move faster and with more confidence.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/67db96d7e512/
🔔 Subscribe for monthly conversations on open-source observability, OTel, open source and cloud-native monitoring.
Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
03:05 - end-user pains with OpenTelemetry adoption
07:49 - enterprise org structure dictates OTel adoption patterns
12:56 - what’s the different between blueprints and reference implementations, and what can you expect of an OTel blueprint
19:46 - how blueprints balance OpenTelemetry’s flexibility with opinionation
23:11 - first blueprint: OpenTelemetry for traditional Environments, virtual machines, bare metal and non-Kubernetes
32:42 - second blueprint: OpenTelemetry for Kubernetes Workloads and managed telemetry
49:08 - third blueprint: Kubernetes monitoring with OpenTelemetry.
56:16 - roadmap for the OpenTelemettry blueprints initiative
1:00:01 - outro
Resources:
OTel Blueprints: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/guidance/
Blueprints intro blog: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/blueprints-intro/
OpAMP intro and updates: https://horovits.medium.com/operating-opentelemetry-at-scale-with-opamp-737b6af8222b
Dotan Horovits
============
X (Twitter): @horovits
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits
Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon
BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social
Dan Gomez Blanco
================
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielgblanco86/
Mastodon: https://mas.to/@dan_gomezblanco
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dangb.me
Socials:
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social
X (Twitter): https://x.com/OpenObserv
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks
OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.