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The DevOps 2.2 Toolkit

By : Viktor Farcic
Book Image

The DevOps 2.2 Toolkit

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

Building on The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit and The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to explore two new programs, self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker. The DevOps 2.2 Toolkit: Self-Sufficient Docker Clusters is the latest book in Viktor Farcic’s series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book in the series looks at Docker, the tool designed to make it easier in the creation and running of applications using containers. In this latest entry, Viktor combines theory with a hands-on approach to guide you through the process of creating self-adaptive and self-healing systems. Within this book, Viktor will cover a wide-range of emerging topics, including what exactly self-adaptive and self-healing systems are, how to choose a solution for metrics storage and query, the creation of cluster-wide alerts and what a successful self-sufficient system blueprint looks like. Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Using templates in Alertmanager configuration

Defining Alertmanager configuration using static text is not very useful if we're running more than one service. Instead, we should employ templates that will help us customize messages. While we're at it, we can also fix the broken link from the message and customize the title.

Before we proceed, let us remove the monitor_alert-manager service and the alert_manager_config secret. That will allow us to deploy it again with better-defined messages.

docker service rm monitor_alert-manager 
 
docker secret rm alert_manager_config 

We'll create a new secret with the complete Alertmanager configuration.

echo "route: 
  group_by: [service] 
  receiver: 'slack' 
  repeat_interval: 1h 
 
receivers: 
  - name: 'slack' 
    slack_configs: 
      - send_resolved: true 
        title: '[{{ .Status ...