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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?

What now?

Grafana is relatively simple to use and intuitive. If you know how to write queries for the data source hooked to Grafana (for example, Prometheus), you already learned the most challenging part. The rest is mostly about checking boxes, choosing panel types, and arranging things on the screen. The main difficulty is to avoid being carried away by creating a bunch of flashy dashboards that do not provide much value. A common mistake is to create a graph for everything we can imagine. That only reduces the value of those that are truly important. Less is often more.

That's it. Destroy the cluster if its dedicated to this book, or keep it if it's not or if you're planning to jump to the next chapter right away. If you're keeping it, please delete the grafana Chart by executing the command that follows. If we need it in one of the next chapters, I&apos...