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DevOps with Kubernetes - Second Edition

By : Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Cheng-Yang Wu
Book Image

DevOps with Kubernetes - Second Edition

By: Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Cheng-Yang Wu

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has been widely adopted across public clouds and on-premise data centers. As we're living in an era of microservices, knowing how to use and manage Kubernetes is an essential skill for everyone in the IT industry. This book is a guide to everything you need to know about Kubernetes—from simply deploying a container to administrating Kubernetes clusters wisely. You'll learn about DevOps fundamentals, as well as deploying a monolithic application as microservices and using Kubernetes to orchestrate them. You will then gain an insight into the Kubernetes network, extensions, authentication and authorization. With the DevOps spirit in mind, you'll learn how to allocate resources to your application and prepare to scale them efficiently. Knowing the status and activity of the application and clusters is crucial, so we’ll learn about monitoring and logging in Kubernetes. Having an improved ability to observe your services means that you will be able to build a continuous delivery pipeline with confidence. At the end of the book, you'll learn how to run managed Kubernetes services on three top cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Hands-on monitoring

So far, we've learned about a wide range of principles that are required to create an impervious monitoring system in Kubernetes, which allows us to build a robust service. It's time to implement one. Because the vast majority of Kubernetes components expose their instrumented metrics on a conventional path in Prometheus format, we are free to use any monitoring tool with which we are acquainted, as long as the tool understands the format. In this section, we'll set up an example with Prometheus. Its popularity in the Kubernetes ecosystem is not only due to its power, but also for its backing by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/), which also sponsors the Kubernetes project.

Getting to know Prometheus

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