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Viktor Farcic
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Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a senior consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group, and an author. He codes using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .NET suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, and so on. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go. Viktor's big passions are Microservices, Continuous Deployment, and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences. Viktor wrote Test-Driven Java Development by Packt Publishing, and The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit. His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog—Technology Conversations
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Exploring logs through kubectl

The first contact most people have with logs in Kubernetes is through kubectl. It is almost unavoidable not to use it.

As we're learning how to tame the Kubernetes beast, we are bound to check logs when we get stuck. In Kubernetes, the term "logs" is reserved for the output produced by our and third-party applications running inside a cluster. However, those exclude the events generated by different Kubernetes resources. Even though many would call them logs as well, Kubernetes separates them from logs and calls them events. I'm sure that you already know how to retrieve logs from the applications and how to see Kubernetes events. Nevertheless, we'll explore them briefly here as well since that will add relevance to the discussion we'll have later on. I promise to keep it short, and you are free to skip this section...

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Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a senior consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group, and an author. He codes using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .NET suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, and so on. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go. Viktor's big passions are Microservices, Continuous Deployment, and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences. Viktor wrote Test-Driven Java Development by Packt Publishing, and The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit. His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog—Technology Conversations
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