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Re:Ask HN: Do's/don'ts of working with Kubernetes you learne... by TuringNYC on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:08PM (#21063526)
Could you comment more on your log aggregation tooling? Did you set up an ELK stack? Self installed or paid? That is the most frustrating part for me — why some of the tooling is not built in.
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Re:Ask HN: Do's/don'ts of working with Kubernetes you learne... by CameronBarre on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:33PM (#21064866)
We don't have the most sophisticated setup, we're on AWS so we use a fluentd daemonset to ship logs to cloudWatch.

In many respects kubernetes is just a really nice piece of marble to start with, you still have to carve your statue.

If certain tooling was built-in they would be making stack-specific subjective decisions for you, which is somewhat antithetical to the kubernetes model.

They'll make critical operational decisions for you (e.g. core competencies like scheduling work across a pool of resources), but when it comes to supporting tooling, you still have to make some decisions on your own.

For a lesser burden, there are most likely helm charts or other prepackaged log aggregation tools out there.

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