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Kubernetes for Developers

You're reading from   Kubernetes for Developers Use Kubernetes to develop, test, and deploy your applications with the help of containers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788834759
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joseph Heck Joseph Heck
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Preface 1. Setting Up Kubernetes for Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Packaging Your Code to Run in Kubernetes 3. Interacting with Your Code in Kubernetes 4. Declarative Infrastructure 5. Pod and Container Lifecycles 6. Background Processing in Kubernetes 7. Monitoring and Metrics 8. Logging and Tracing 9. Integration Testing 10. Troubleshooting Common Problems and Next Steps 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Logs

The most common method of getting information about how your code is working is generally through logs. Every language and development environment has its own pattern of how to expose those details, but at the very basics, it can be as simple as a print statement sending a line of text that will mean something to you to stdout. It is without a doubt the most consistent means across all programming languages of quick and simple debugging. When you deploy and run your code in Kubernetes, it maintains access to the logs from each Pod and container—where logs, in this case, are sending data to stdout and stderr.

If your existing pattern of development writes output to a specific file location, and maybe your framework includes the capability of rotating those log files as they grow, you may want to consider just sending data to stdout and/or stderr so that Kubernetes can...

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