Container Management

We discussed different configurations available for extending Splunk deployments across multiple clusters geographically and otherwise in Chapter 11, Multisite Splunk Deployments and Federated Search. These types of deployments are becoming more prevalent as the rise in globalization and data production increase. Organizations want to ensure that data is available to consumers. In this chapter, we will look at one last technology that organizations can use to deploy Splunk efficiently. Containerization is the term used to refer to hosting multiple isolated software units that share the same Operating System (OS) kernel. We have already seen one cloud-based container environment when we installed Splunk Enterprise on AWS instances in Chapter 2, Setting Up the Splunk Environment. We will look at some basic information about containers in this chapter. We will also look at spinning up Splunk in Docker containers. There, we will learn about the Splunk Operator for...