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Published inMar 2020
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Murat Karslioglu
Murat Karslioglu
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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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Accessing Kubernetes logs locally

In Kubernetes, logs can be used for debugging and monitoring activities to a certain level. Basic logging can be used to detect configuration problems, but for cluster-level logging, an external backend is required to store and query logs. Cluster-level logging will be covered in the Building centralized logging in Kubernetes using the EFK stack and Logging Kubernetes using Google Stackdriver recipes.

In this section, we will learn how to access basic logs based on the options that are available in Kubernetes.

Getting ready

Clone the k8sdevopscookbook/src repository to your workstation to use the manifest files in the chapter10 directory, as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/k8sdevopscookbook/src.git
$ cd src/chapter10

Make sure you have a Kubernetes cluster ready and kubectl and helm configured to manage the cluster resources.

How to do it…

This section is further divided into the following subsections to make this process easier:

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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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