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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)
8
What Did We Do?

Combining Azure Log Analytics with an AKS cluster

Just like GKE (and unlike EKS), AKS comes with an integrated logging solution. All we have to do is enable one of the AKS addons. To be more precise, we'll enable the monitoring addon. As the name indicates, the addon does not fulfill only the needs to collect logs, but it also handles metrics. However, we are interested just in logs. I believe that nothing beats Prometheus for metrics, especially since it integrates with HorizontalPodAutoscaler. Still, you should explore AKS metrics as well and reach your own conclusion. For now, we'll explore only the logging part of the addon.

 1  az aks enable-addons \
 2    -a monitoring \
 3    -n devops25-cluster \
 4    -g devops25-group

The output is a rather big JSON with all the information about the newly enabled monitoring addon. There's nothing exciting in it.

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