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Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows

By : Piotr Tylenda
Book Image

Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows

By: Piotr Tylenda

Overview of this book

With the adoption of Windows containers in Kubernetes, you can now fully leverage the flexibility and robustness of the Kubernetes container orchestration system in the Windows ecosystem. This support will enable you to create new Windows applications and migrate existing ones to the cloud-native stack with the same ease as for Linux-oriented cloud applications. This practical guide takes you through the key concepts involved in packaging Windows-distributed applications into containers and orchestrating these using Kubernetes. You'll also understand the current limitations of Windows support in Kubernetes. As you advance, you'll gain hands-on experience deploying a fully functional hybrid Linux/Windows Kubernetes cluster for development, and explore production scenarios in on-premises and cloud environments, such as Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with containerization, microservices architecture, and the critical considerations for running Kubernetes in production environments successfully.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Creating and Working with Containers
5
Section 2: Understanding Kubernetes Fundamentals
9
Section 3: Creating Windows Kubernetes Clusters
12
Section 4: Orchestrating Windows Containers Using Kubernetes

Configuring dashboards and alerts in Grafana

The web UI of the Prometheus server is very limited and in most cases is used just for performing basic ad hoc queries and checking the configuration. To create more advanced visualizations of the data in Prometheus, you can use Grafana (https://grafana.com/), which is an open source analytics and monitoring solution with support for multiple databases. In the previous sections, we have already deployed Grafana using a Helm chart together with Prometheus.

Grafana offers multiple ways to visualize your monitoring dataranging from simple line charts and gauges to complex heatmaps. You can find more information about how to create the visualizations in the official documentation: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/. For our application, we will demonstrate how to configure an example dashboard with the following visualizations...