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Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230030
Pages 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Marc Boorshtein Marc Boorshtein
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Scott Surovich Scott Surovich
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Docker and Container Essentials 2. Deploying Kubernetes Using KinD 3. Kubernetes Bootcamp 4. Services, Load Balancing, ExternalDNS, and Global Balancing 5. Integrating Authentication into Your Cluster 6. RBAC Policies and Auditing 7. Deploying a Secured Kubernetes Dashboard 8. Extending Security Using Open Policy Agent 9. Node Security with GateKeeper 10. Auditing Using Falco, DevOps AI, and ECK 11. Backing Up Workloads 12. An Introduction to Istio 13. Building and Deploying Applications on Istio 14. Provisioning a Platform 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Deploying add-on components to provide observability

By now, you know how to deploy Istio and understand some of the most used objects, but you haven't seen one of the most useful features yet – observability. At the beginning of the chapter, we mentioned that observability was one of our favorite features provided by Istio, and in this chapter, we will explain how to deploy a popular Istio add-on called Kiali.

Installing Prometheus

Before we install Kiali, we need to deploy an open-source monitoring and alert component called Prometheus that was developed by SoundCloud to store our mesh metrics. Prometheus was developed in 2012 and in 2016 it was added to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), becoming only the second project in the CNCF behind Kubernetes.

People who are newer to Prometheus and Kubernetes often misunderstand the features provided by Prometheus. Prometheus does not provide logging for your containers or infrastructure, that's where...

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