Practical Debugging at Scale: Cloud Native Debugging in Kubernetes and Production

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023

S. AlmogPractical Debugging at Scalehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9042-2_6

6. Debugging Kubernetes

Shai Almog¹  

(1)

Tel Aviv, Israel

 

In programming, if someone tells you “you’re overcomplicating it,” they’re either 10 steps behind you or 10 steps ahead of you.

—Andrew Clark

Despite the title of this chapter, a lot of the ideas explained here aren’t unique to Kubernetes and can apply to all large-scale distributed systems. I have a popular talk on debugging Kubernetes applications. The talk assumes a lot of preexisting knowledge about Kubernetes basics, which is problematic. I don’t want to force too much exposition into a 45-minute talk, but here I can ...