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Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Book Image

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai

Overview of this book

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali • Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein • Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Centralized logging


A Microservices application running on distributed platform such as Service Fabric is particularly hard to debug. You cannot debug the application by attaching a debugger to spot and fix the issue. Logging is a commonly used mechanism to track application behavior.

All the processes and applications running on distributed systems generate logs. The logs are usually written to files on local disk. However, since there are multiple hosts in a distributed system, managing and accessing the logs can become cumbersome. To solve this problem, a centralized logging solution is required so that multiple logs can be aggregated in a central location.

For your Service Fabric applications, you can enable collection of logs from each cluster node using Azure Diagnostics extension, which uploads logs to Azure Storage. Once you have aggregated the logs, you can use products such as Elastic Search, Azure Operations Management Suite, and so on, to derive useful information from it.