README-bonus.md

Deploying an App

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Bonus: Enabling Honeycomb

You've been asked to also enable Honeycomb for this deployment.

It's not necessary to understand what Honeycomb is or does. What is important is to know that it's an optional piece of configuration for this deployment.

The relevant section in the documentation includes this:

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Configuring Honeycomb

For debugging, it may be useful to emit events to Honeycomb. This can be enabled by passing an additional data values file to the ytt command.

honeycomb-values.yml

---
honeycomb:
  dataet: my-dataset
  writekey: MY_WRITE_KEY

$ ytt -f config/ --data-values-file values.yml --data-values-file honeycomb-values.yml

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