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Kubernetes for Developers

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Product type Book

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788834759

Pages 374 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Containerization

Author (1):

Joseph Heck

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Setting Up Kubernetes for Development

2. Packaging Your Code to Run in Kubernetes

3. Interacting with Your Code in Kubernetes

4. Declarative Infrastructure

5. Pod and Container Lifecycles

6. Background Processing in Kubernetes

7. Monitoring and Metrics

8. Logging and Tracing

9. Integration Testing

10. Troubleshooting Common Problems and Next Steps

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Capturing metrics with Prometheus

Prometheus is a prominent open source tool used for monitoring, and quite a bit of symbiotic work is happening between it and the Kubernetes community. Kubernetes application metrics are exposed in the Prometheus format. This format includes the data types of counter, gauge, histogram, and summary, as well as a means of specifying labels to be associated with specific metrics. As Prometheus and Kubernetes have both evolved, the metrics format from Prometheus appears to be emerging as a de facto standard within the project and across its various components.

More information about this format is available online at the Prometheus project's documentation:

Beyond the metrics format, Prometheus offers quite a variety of capabilities as its own open source project, and is used outside Kubernetes. The architecture...

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Authors (1)

Joseph Heck

Joseph Heck has broad development and management experience across start-ups and large companies. He has architected, developed, and deployed a wide variety of solutions, ranging from mobile and desktop applications to cloud-based distributed systems. He builds and directs teams and mentors individuals to improve the way they build, validate, deploy, and run software. He also works extensively with and in open source, collaborating across many projects, including Kubernetes.

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