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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?

Importing and customizing pre-made dashboards

Data sources are useless by themselves. We need to visualize them somehow. We could do that by creating our own dashboard, but that might not be the best (and easiest) introduction to Grafana. Instead, we'll import one of the existing community-maintained dashboards. We just need to choose one that suits our needs.

 1  open "https://grafana.com/dashboards"

Feel free to spend a bit of time exploring the available dashboards.

I think that Kubernetes cluster monitoring (https://grafana.com/dashboards/3119) dashboard is a good starting point. Let's import it.

Please click the + icon from the left-hand menu, followed with the Import link, and you'll be presented with a screen that allows us to import one of the Grafana.com dashboards, or to paste JSON that defines it.

We'll go with the former option.

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