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Learning CoreOS

By : Kingston Smiler. S, Shantanu Agrawal
Book Image

Learning CoreOS

By: Kingston Smiler. S, Shantanu Agrawal

Overview of this book

CoreOS is an open source operating system developed upon the Linux kernel. The rise of CoreOS is directly related to the rise of Docker (a Linux container management system). It is a minimal operating system layer and takes a different approach to automating the deployment of containers. The major difference between CoreOS and other Linux distributions is that CoreOS was designed to deploy hundreds of servers. CoreOS immensely helps the users to create systems, which are easy to scale and manage, making life easier for all, be it developer, QA, or deployer. This book is all about setting up, deploying, and using CoreOS to manage clusters and clouds. It will help you understand what CoreOS is and its benefits as a cloud orchestration platform. First, we’ll show you how to set up a simple CoreOS instance with single node in the cluster and how to run a Docker container inside the CoreOS instance. Next, you’ll be introduced to Fleet and systemd, and will deploy and distribute Docker services across different nodes in cluster using Fleet. Later, you’ll be briefed about running services in a cluster with constraints, publishing the services already running on the cluster to new services, and making your services interact with each other. We conclude by teaching you about advanced container networking. By the end of the book, you will know the salient features of CoreOS and will be able to deploy, administrate, and secure a CoreOS environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning CoreOS
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

sysdig


We are aware of commonly used debugging tools for Linux to monitor and take snapshots of system health. For example, if we want to check whether the machine is overloading its CPU or RAM, we use tools like top or vmstat. If we have to capture the packets over the interface, we use wireshark or tcpdump. Similarly, we use iostat to monitor the system IO devices.

sysdig provides integrated support for monitoring all the preceding system resources along with providing many more features. And most importantly, in our context it provides support for containers. We know that containers run in the host OS in separate namespaces. So the processes running inside containers are also visible to the native tools, say, for example, ps. In a container environment, the information related to the application is present in two levels: one at the host kernel level, for example process ID as the host kernel sees it, and the other at the container level, for example, the process ID inside the container...