Working with Google Stackdriver

In Chapter 7, Building Kubernetes on GCP, we introduced GKE. It has an integrated logging mechanism, which is called Google Stackdriver. In this section, we will explore the integration between GKE and Stackdriver.

Getting ready

To use a Stackdriver, you just need a GCP account. If you have never used GCP, please go back and read Chapter 7, Building Kubernetes on GCP, to set up a GCP account and the gcloud command-line interface.

To use Stackdriver on GKE, no action is needed, because GKE uses Stackdriver as a logging platform by default. But if you want to explicitly enable Stackdriver, specify --enable-cloud-logging while launching your Kubernetes by using the gcloud command, as follows:

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