What we learned after a year on Kubernetes

Re:What we learned after a year on Kubernetes by wronglebowski on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:44PM (#24509083)

I'd like to hear more on troubleshooting with a managed k8s platform and how you diagnose such issues.

My organization is playing with EKS and while perhaps it is different from GKE I feel like I have minimal visibility into if the control plane is healthy. I've had several instances where all of my node groups have become unhealthy for various reasons and EKS failed to spin up new nodes to resolve the issue.

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Re:What we learned after a year on Kubernetes by manigandham on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:49AM (#24514069)

GKE is a magnitude better than the other managed kubernetes services.

Observability starts with logging and metrics. K8S already puts out lots of events on what's happening which you can use to debug, and there are many 3rd-party monitoring solutions if you need more detail.

If you don't have this with EKS then use something like LogDNA and NetData to see the logs and metrics yourself.

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Re:What we learned after a year on Kubernetes by ckdarby on Saturday September 19, 2020 @02:08PM (#24529335)

@wronglebowski In EKS there is a logging option for the control plane, turn this on and you get all the control plane logs in Cloudwatch logs.

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