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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?

Exploring logs through kubectl

The first contact most people have with logs in Kubernetes is through kubectl. It is almost unavoidable not to use it.

As we're learning how to tame the Kubernetes beast, we are bound to check logs when we get stuck. In Kubernetes, the term "logs" is reserved for the output produced by our and third-party applications running inside a cluster. However, those exclude the events generated by different Kubernetes resources. Even though many would call them logs as well, Kubernetes separates them from logs and calls them events. I'm sure that you already know how to retrieve logs from the applications and how to see Kubernetes events. Nevertheless, we'll explore them briefly here as well since that will add relevance to the discussion we'll have later on. I promise to keep it short, and you are free to skip this section...