A compact and easy-to-understand and implement Kubernetes ELK log monitoring system

What is the ELK stack?

This refers to a stack comprised of log monitoring tools like Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana . Each tool in this stack performs data processing, storage, analysis, and visualization, so they're often used together when building a log monitoring system. ( Filebeat , a data collection tool, is also often used in conjunction with this stack.)

I prepared this lecture with the thought that deploying these ELK stack tools as each resource on a Kubernetes cluster , confirming that they are organically connected to each other , and using them directly would be a good hands-on experience for those who are just learning Kubernetes .

Want to gain practical Kubernetes experience?

Have you heard of the ELK stack, but are curious about how to deploy and use it?

If so, you've come to the right place. This course will give you hands-on experience building and using a log monitoring system using the ELK (with Filebeat) stack in a local Kubernetes environment.

After taking this course...

• You will gain practical experience using Kubernetes by deploying the ELK stack yourself and building a Log Monitoring system .

• You can gain a deeper understanding of Kubernetes by taking a basic theory class on Kubernetes infrastructure and deploying each component of the ELK stack using only Kubernetes basic resources .

• You will gain fundamental knowledge of each component of the ELK stack .

Learning Content

This course is divided into a theory part and a practical part.

Things to note before taking the course

• This course will be conducted on a local Kubernetes cluster built using a tool called minikube .

  • In this lecture, we will show you how to install and use minikube, but to proceed with the hands-on lab, you must have a virtualization tool like Docker and kubectl , a Kubernetes cluster management tool, installed in advance on your lab PC.

• The version of the ELK stack tools used in this lecture is 7.10.2, the latest open source distribution.

  
  

  • Since we will cover the basics of a monitoring system using the open source version of the ELK tool, the X-Pack features developed by Elastic will not be covered in this lecture.