You're reading from Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure, Third Edition Use Azure Kubernetes Service to automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079945

Length 528 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Gunther Lenz

Nills Franssens

Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure – Third Edition

Foreword

Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER

1. Introduction to containers and Kubernetes

2. Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service

Section 2: Deploying on AKS

3. Application deployment on AKS

4. Building scalable applications

5. Handling common failures in AKS

6. Securing your application with HTTPS

7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application

Section 3: Securing your AKS cluster and workloads

8. Role-based access control in AKS

9. Azure Active Directory pod‑managed identities in AKS

10. Storing secrets in AKS

11. Network security in AKS

Section 4: Integrating with Azure managed services

12. Connecting an application to an Azure database

13. Azure Security Center for Kubernetes

14. Serverless functions

15. Continuous integration and continuous deployment for AKS

Index

Commands for monitoring applications

Monitoring the health of applications deployed on Kubernetes as well as the Kubernetes infrastructure itself is essential for providing a reliable service to your customers. There are two primary use cases for monitoring:

Ongoing monitoring to get alerts if something is not behaving as expected
Troubleshooting and debugging application errors

When observing an application running on top of a Kubernetes cluster, you'll need to examine multiple things in parallel, including containers, pods, services, and the nodes in the cluster. For ongoing monitoring, you'll need a monitoring system such as Azure Monitor or Prometheus. Azure Monitor will be introduced later in this chapter. Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/) is a popular open-source solution within the Kubernetes ecosystem to monitor Kubernetes environments. For troubleshooting, you'll need to interact with the live cluster. The most common commands used for troubleshooting...