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The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit

By : Viktor Farcic
Book Image

The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

Building on The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit: Kubernetes, and The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit: Continuous Deployment to Kubernetes, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to monitoring, logging, and autoscaling Kubernetes. The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit: Monitoring, Logging, and Auto-Scaling Kubernetes: Making Resilient, Self-Adaptive, And Autonomous Kubernetes Clusters is the latest book in Viktor Farcic’s series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book helps readers develop the necessary skillsets needed to be able to operate Kubernetes clusters, with a focus on metrics gathering and alerting with the goal of making clusters and applications inside them autonomous through self-healing and self-adaptation. Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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What Did We Do?

Creating custom dashboards

It would be great if all our needs could be covered by existing dashboards. But, that is probably not the case. Each organization is "special", and our needs have to be reflected in our dashboards. Sometimes we can get away with dashboards made by others, and sometimes we need to change them. In other cases, we need to create our own dashboards. That's what we'll explore next.

Please click the + icon in the left-hand menu and choose to Create Dashboard. You'll be presented with the choice of a few types of panels. Select Graph.

Before we define our first graph, we'll change a few dashboard settings. Please click the Settings icon in the top-right part of the screen.

Inside the General section, type the Name of the dashboard. If you are not inspired today, you can call it My Dashboard. Set the Tags to Prometheus and Kubernetes...