How OpenTelemetry Works: Tracing, Metrics and Logs on Kubernetes

This excerpt from the first chapter of the Manning book Platform Engineering on Kubernetes walks through a Kubernetes environment, installing an example conference app with a single command, verifying health and learning core primitives — deployments, ReplicaSets, services and service discovery — while confronting real-world issues like zero downtime, resilience, state/data consistency, security/identity and understanding application behavior. To read the full chapter, you can download the book.

Distributed systems are complex beasts and…