Image source Monitoring distributed microservices like Kubernetes is not an easy task because they require real-time attention and proactive monitoring. To overcome this challenge, many companies develop various open-source monitoring tools for Kubernetes. Some tools collect metrics, others collect logs. Some are Kubernetes-native, others are more agnostic in nature. Some are data collectors while others provide an interface for operating Kubernetes. This article takes a look at five of the more popular Kubernetes monitoring tools out there. What Is Kubernetes? Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source platform for deploying, automating, managing, and scaling containerized applications. Kubernetes groups containers into clusters for easy discovery and management. You can deploy K8s on-premise, and…
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Deploy your first scaleable PHP/MySQL Web application in Kubernetes
Introduction In this post, I am going to talk about Kubernetes, what is it all about, why to use it and how to use it. At the end of this post you should be able to understand the basic working of Kubernetes and be able to deploy your app in a Kubernetes cluster. Prerequisite It will be very difficult to understand Kubernetes if you have no idea of containerization tool like Docker. If you don’t know what Docker is and how to use it for making modular architecture than you should visit this two-part series. (Part 1, Part 2). Infact, I will recommend you to read both part as this…
