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Kubernetes observability tutorial: Log monitoring and analysis

Kubernetes has emerged the de facto container orchestration technology, and an integral technology in the cloud native movement. Cloud native brings speed, elasticity, and agility to software development, but also increases the complexity — with hundreds of microservices on thousands (or millions) of containers, running in ephemeral and disposable pods. Monitoring such a complex, distributed, transient system is challenging, and at the same time very critical.

Kubernetes observability tutorial: K8s cluster setup and demo app deployment

The easiest way to get the Elastic Stack up and running for this tutorial, is to spin up a 14-day free trial of our Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud. A few clicks (no credit cards) and you’ll have your cluster up and running. Or if you prefer, download the Elastic Stack and install locally. All of the instructions in this tutorial can be easily amended to work with a standalone Elasticsearch cluster on your own hardware.

Upgrade Your K3s Clusters Smoothly in Rancher 2.4

In Rancher 2.4, the latest release of Rancher Labs’ open source Kubernetes management platform, you can now manage K3s cluster upgrades from the Rancher UI. K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution from Rancher that you can use to set up your development Kubernetes environment within minutes. It is great for production use cases and is built primarily for IOT and Edge devices. In Rancher 2.4, you can import K3s clusters and can manage the upgrades for it via Rancher itself.

Cloud-native benchmarking with Kubestone

Organizations are increasingly looking to containers and distributed applications to provide the agility and scalability needed to satisfy their clients. While doing so, modern enterprises also need the ability to benchmark their application and be aware of certain metrics in relation to their infrastructure. In this post, I am introducing you to a cloud-native bench-marking tool known as Kubestone.

Designing an Opensource Observability Stack for Distributed Environments - Tech Strong Conf.

Observability teams today are facing increasing challenges in achieving visibility into the systems they monitor. Kubernetes adds significant complexity to achieving this goal. Open source provides powerful options and comes with serious advantages in cost, agility, and speed. Join Logz.io co-founder Asaf Yigal to learn how you can gain observability into Kubernetes projects with open source tools.

Peaking into your container and infrastructure

Containers get shipped by the thousand, but how do you keep track of the health and status of all those individual compute units? You can do it following the principles behind observability, you can see what’s happening with the infrastructure and the applications using open source tools. In this talk, we’ll describe how easy it is to implement the OSS tools required to get full observability and how that’ll improve your operations and your development cycles.

Deploying a Containerized App in Google GKE

Because of its popularity and widespread adoption, Kubernetes has become the industry’s de facto for deploying a containerized app. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is Google Cloud Products’ (GCP) managed Kubernetes service. It provides out-of-the-box features such as auto-scaling nodes, high-availability clusters, and automatic upgrades of masters and nodes. In addition, it offers the most convenient cluster setup workflow and the best overall developer experience.

Kubernetes Network Policy Introduction

Kubernetes Network Policy is the native way to implement network security controls in Kubernetes. Calico Policy is a superset of Kubernetes Network Policy that adds additional capabilities that help meet common real-world use cases. In this talk, we will educate you on the basics of Kubernetes Network Policy, the differences with Calico Policy, example use cases, and demos. You’ll walk away from this session with knowledge that will help you decide which network policy is right for you.