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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By : Alexander Raul
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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By: Alexander Raul

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is a modern cloud native container orchestration tool and one of the most popular open source projects worldwide. In addition to the technology being powerful and highly flexible, Kubernetes engineers are in high demand across the industry. This book is a comprehensive guide to deploying, securing, and operating modern cloud native applications on Kubernetes. From the fundamentals to Kubernetes best practices, the book covers essential aspects of configuring applications. You’ll even explore real-world techniques for running clusters in production, tips for setting up observability for cluster resources, and valuable troubleshooting techniques. Finally, you’ll learn how to extend and customize Kubernetes, as well as gaining tips for deploying service meshes, serverless tooling, and more on your cluster. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll be equipped with the tools you need to confidently run and extend modern applications on Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Setting Up Kubernetes
5
Section 2: Configuring and Deploying Applications on Kubernetes
11
Section 3: Running Kubernetes in Production
16
Section 4: Extending Kubernetes

Chapter 9: Observability on Kubernetes

This chapter dives into capabilities that are highly recommended to implement when running Kubernetes in production. First, we discuss observability in the context of distributed systems such as Kubernetes. Then, we look at the built-in Kubernetes observability stack and what functionality it implements. Finally, we learn how to supplement the built-in observability tooling with additional observability, monitoring, logging, and metrics infrastructure from the ecosystem. The skills you learn in this chapter will help you deploy observability tools to your Kubernetes cluster and enable you to understand how your cluster (and applications running on it) are functioning.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding observability on Kubernetes
  • Using default observability tooling – metrics, logging, and the dashboard
  • Implementing the best of the ecosystem

To start, we will learn the out-of-the...