Key Features

The sixth book of DevOps expert Viktor Farcic's bestselling DevOps Toolkit series, with an overview of advanced core Kubernetes techniques, -oriented towards monitoring and alerting.

Takes a deep dive into monitoring, alerting, logging, auto-scaling, and other subjects aimed at making clusters resilient, self-sufficient, and self-adaptive.

Discusses how to customise and create dashboards and alerts.

Book Description

Building on The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit: Kubernetes, and The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit: Continuous Deployment to Kubernetes, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to monitoring, logging, and autoscaling Kubernetes.

The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit: Monitoring, Logging, and Auto-Scaling Kubernetes: Making Resilient, Self-Adaptive, And Autonomous Kubernetes Clusters is the latest book in Viktor Farcic's series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book helps readers develop the necessary skillsets needed to be able to operate Kubernetes clusters, with a focus on metrics gathering and alerting with the goal of making clusters and applications inside them autonomous through self-healing and self-adaptation.

Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Kubernetes.

What you will learn

Autoscaling Deployments and Statefulsets based on resource usage

Autoscaling nodes of a Kubernetes cluster

Debugging issues discovered through metrics and alerts

Extending HorizontalPodAutoscaler with custom metrics

Visualizing metrics and alerts

Collecting and querying logs

Who this book is for

Readers with an advanced-level understanding of Kubernetes and hands-on experience.