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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?

What now?

You know what to do. Destroy the cluster if you created it specifically for this chapter.

Before you leave, you might want to go over the main points of this chapter.

  • For any but the smallest systems, going from one resource to another and from one node to another to find the cause of an issue is anything but practical, reliable, and fast.
  • More often than not, kubectl logs command does not provide us with enough options to perform anything but simplest retrieval of logs.
  • Elasticsearch is excellent, but it does too much. Its lack of focus makes it inferior to Prometheus for storing and querying metrics, as well as sending alerts based on such data.
  • Logs themselves are too expensive to parse, and most of the time they do not provide enough data to act as metrics.
  • We need logs centralized in a single location so that we can explore logs from any part of the system.
  • We...