Cloud Observability in Action

Appendix. A Kubernetes end-to-end example

In this appendix, we will work through an end-to-end observability sample application in Kubernetes. Throughout the book, we’ve been using Docker Compose as our tool of choice. It has a number of advantages as an educational device; however, in reality, you will more likely use Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or HashiCorp Nomad as an orchestrator. So this appendix will offer you a more native and consistent approach that covers all the tracing, metrics, and logging topics we discussed and allow you to play around with the setup.

Tip You could use kompose (https://kompose.io/user-guide/) to turn any of the Docker Compose example files we’ve covered into Kubernetes resources (e.g., deployments and services) to ...