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Practical Site Reliability Engineering

By : Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Shreyash Naithani, Shailender Singh
Book Image

Practical Site Reliability Engineering

By: Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Shreyash Naithani, Shailender Singh

Overview of this book

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is being touted as the most competent paradigm in establishing and ensuring next-generation high-quality software solutions. This book starts by introducing you to the SRE paradigm and covers the need for highly reliable IT platforms and infrastructures. As you make your way through the next set of chapters, you will learn to develop microservices using Spring Boot and make use of RESTful frameworks. You will also learn about GitHub for deployment, containerization, and Docker containers. Practical Site Reliability Engineering teaches you to set up and sustain containerized cloud environments, and also covers architectural and design patterns and reliability implementation techniques such as reactive programming, and languages such as Ballerina and Rust. In the concluding chapters, you will get well-versed with service mesh solutions such as Istio and Linkerd, and understand service resilience test practices, API gateways, and edge/fog computing. By the end of this book, you will have gained experience on working with SRE concepts and be able to deliver highly reliable apps and services.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
10
Containers, Kubernetes, and Istio Monitoring
Index

Chapter 10. Containers, Kubernetes, and Istio Monitoring

In the cloud world, we need to carry out monitoring to observe the progress and quality of our services and applications over a period of time. Monitoring allows us to keep our applications under systematic review. If something breaks, we want to know what it is and what caused it to malfunction. Monitoring helps us to investigate the failure points in our services. We can make sure that we detect these services early on using anomaly detection. White-box monitoring can help us work out which services are failing and why, and also how to debug them. It can also provide future trends, which means it can detect potential future failures. Here, we will be focusing only on tools that enable us to monitor either our application or our infrastructure:

  • Monitoring the application: It is very important that the features or services that are being developed are monitored. There should be a proper time-series graph and a dashboard.
  • Monitoring the...