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Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows

By : Piotr Tylenda
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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

Chapter 14: Monitoring Kubernetes Applications Using Prometheus

  1. Providing observability for your components means exposing information about their inner state so that you can access the data easily and reason about the actual state of your components. In other words, if something is observable, you can understand it.
  2. WMI Exporter can be used to monitor a Windows node host OS and hardware. For monitoring the Docker Engine itself, you can use the experimental metrics server exposed by the Engine.
  3. In production environments running at a large scale, you can use Prometheus Operator to easily deploy and manage multiple Prometheus clusters for different needs.
  4. WMI Exporter and the Docker Engine metrics server are exposing the metrics on dedicated ports on each node. We need two extra scraping jobs that handle them individually.
  5. Use the Telegraf service hosted directly in your container...