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Getting Started with Kubernetes

You're reading from   Getting Started with Kubernetes Extend your containerization strategy by orchestrating and managing large-scale container deployments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788994729
Length 470 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Jesse White Jesse White
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Jonathan Baier Jonathan Baier
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Preface 1. Introduction to Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Foundation with Core Kubernetes Constructs 3. Working with Networking, Load Balancers, and Ingress 4. Implementing Reliable Container-Native Applications 5. Exploring Kubernetes Storage Concepts 6. Application Updates, Gradual Rollouts, and Autoscaling 7. Designing for Continuous Integration and Delivery 8. Monitoring and Logging 9. Operating Systems, Platforms, and Cloud and Local Providers 10. Designing for High Availability and Scalability 11. Kubernetes SIGs, Incubation Projects, and the CNCF 12. Cluster Federation and Multi-Tenancy 13. Cluster Authentication, Authorization, and Container Security 14. Hardening Kubernetes 15. Kubernetes Infrastructure Management 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

FluentD and Google Cloud Logging


Looking back at the System pod listing screenshot at the beginning of the chapter, you may have noted a number of pods starting with the words fluentd-cloud-logging-kubernetes. These pods appear when using the GCE provider for your K8s cluster.

A pod like this exists on every node in our cluster, and its sole purpose is to handle the processing of Kubernetes logs. If we log in to our Google Cloud Platform account, we can see some of the logs processed there. Simply use the left side, and under Stackdriver, select Logging. This will take us to a log listing page with a number of drop-down menus on the top. If this is your first time visiting the page, the first drop-down will likely be set to Cloud HTTP Load Balancer

In this drop-down menu, we'll see a number of GCE types of entries. Select GCE VM instances and then the Kubernetes master or one of the nodes. In the second drop-down, we can choose various log groups, including kubelet. We can also filter by...

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