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Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
Book Image

Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration platform to manage containers in a cluster environment. With Kubernetes, you can configure and deploy containerized applications easily. This book gives you a quick brush up on how Kubernetes works with containers, and an overview of main Kubernetes concepts, such as Pods, Deployments, Services and etc. This book explains how to create Kubernetes clusters and run applications with proper authentication and authorization configurations. With real-world recipes, you'll learn how to create high availability Kubernetes clusters on AWS, GCP and in on-premise datacenters with proper logging and monitoring setup. You'll also learn some useful tips about how to build a continuous delivery pipeline for your application. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to use Kubernetes in production and will have a better understanding of how to manage containers using Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introduction

Logging and monitoring are two of the most important tasks in Kubernetes. However, there are many ways to achieve logging and monitoring in Kubernetes, because there are a lot of logging and monitoring open source applications, as well as many public cloud services.

Kubernetes has a best practice for setting up a logging and monitoring infrastructure that most Kubernetes provisioning tools support as an add-on. In addition, managed Kubernetes services, such as Google Kubernetes Engine, integrate GCP log and a monitoring service out of the box.

Let's set up a logging and monitoring service on your Kubernetes cluster.