Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

As you can see, the installed Kibana versions are different based on the Kubernetes provisioning tool. But this cookbook explores the basic functions of Kibana. Therefore, there are no version-specific operations to worry about.

Let's launch a sample application and then learn how to monitor your application log using Kibana:

1. Prepare a sample application that keeps printing a DateTime and hello message to the stdout:

$ cat myapp.yamlapiVersion: v1kind: Podmetadata:  name: myappspec:  containers:  - image: busybox    name: application    args:      - /bin/sh      - -c      - >        while true; do        echo "$(date) INFO hello";        sleep 1;        done

2. Create a sample application in the chap9 namespace:

$ kubectl create -f myapp.yaml --namespace=chap9pod "myapp" created ...