Introduction

If you are into Docker and Kubernetes, and have some IaaS resource at hand. Probably you could try to build a nice Kubernetes cluster by yourself instead of deploying the work to some cloud platform. In this way you learn more about the design of Kubernetes and also have the total control of your cluster on host machine level.

Some Good Reading Materials

• Kubernetes Documentation
• Kubernetes中文指南/云原生应用架构实践手册

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Background

This post introduces 2 basic solutions about docker monitoring. And what's more, we want to dig into metrics exporting methods. In order to do some data analysis, we want to extract metrics in a usable/simple format (e.g. CSV). It's easy to query some metrics, but the tools paid less attention to export multiple metrics joined by timestamp(this can be some scenarios about data analysis, or dev daily report), we are going to build a small tools for this.

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