Chapter 8

Troubleshooting Applications in Kubernetes

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • List troubleshooting practices
  • List the different states of a Pod
  • Set up liveness and readiness probes
  • Use different kubectl commands to troubleshoot applications in Kubernetes

This chapter explains how to troubleshoot the problems encountered in applications running on Kubernetes.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we went through many different ways to update and scale your application in Kubernetes. We also explored setting up an autoscaler so that we wouldn't worry about scaling our applications up and down manually to handle incoming traffic. Now we continue with another essential topic that we need to embrace ...

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