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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 centralized logging through Papertrail

The first centralized logging solution we'll explore is Papertrail (https://papertrailapp.com/). We'll use it as a representative of a logging-as-a-service solution that can save us from installing and, more importantly, maintaining a self-hosted alternative.

Papertrail features live trailing, filtering by timestamps, powerful search queries, pretty colors, and quite a few other things that might (or might not) be essential when skimming through logs produced inside our clusters.

The first thing we need to do is to register or, if this is not the first time you tried Papertrail, to log in.

 1  open "https://papertrailapp.com/"

Please follow the instructions to register or to log in if you already have a user in their system.

You will be glad to find out that Papertrail provides a free plan that allows storage...