© Navin Sabharwal, Piyush Pandey 2020
N. Sabharwal, P. PandeyMonitoring Microservices and Containerized Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6216-0_2

2. Getting Started with Containers

Navin Sabharwal1  and Piyush Pandey2
(1)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
(2)
New Delhi, India
 
This chapter will provide hands-on steps for installing Docker and Kubernetes. We also look into how to deploy a containerized application on Kubernetes. This will set us up for the following chapters, where we will monitor this setup using Prometheus. This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Setting Up Docker CE and Running First Container

  • Setting Up Kubernetes

  • Deploying the Sample Application

Lab Environment Setup

For our lab environment, we will be using two Redhat 7 virtual ...

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