11 Putting Fluent Bit into action: An enterprise use case
This chapter covers
- Reviewing an enterprise use case’s needs
- Seeing why adopting Fluent Bit can be evolutionary
- Looking at multicloud observability
- Connecting what we’ve learned with the real world
To understand how to use different features of Fluent Bit in a real-world context, we’ll link our examples to a hypothetical use case in this chapter. Although the use case is for a hypothetical company, many aspects of the example are based on real-world needs. As we work through the use case and see how Fluent Bit can be applied to deliver value, we’ll refer to specific chapters that cover the relevant concepts and capabilities.
11.1 Use case
Media Management Solutions (MMS) provides media content management as a service, covering tasks such as cataloging media, streaming, and transcoding formats for content such as audio and video. The product is a specialized form of headless content management system in many respects. Enterprise customers will incorporate and extend the core product into their own services. Customers are typically large corporations that need to provide videos, such as instructional videos, for their staff or customers.