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Deepak Vohra, Kubernetes Management Design Patterns, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2598-1_14

14. Configuring Logging

Deepak Vohra

(1)White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

Logging is the process of collecting and storing log messages generated by different components of a system (which would be a Kubernetes cluster) and by applications running on the cluster.

Problem

One of the problems associated with logging is demarcating the components and applications generating logging messages. Another problem is decoupling the logging from the component/application. The component generating logs in a Kubernetes application would be a container in a pod.

Solution

A container runs in isolation on the Docker Engine and is an object from which the single-container ...

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