Hard drives monitoring automation approach for Kubernetes container orchestration system

Today, a laborious and non-trivial task is to automate monitoring of hard drives in a cluster infrastructure using the Kubernetes container management system. The paper discusses existing approaches to monitoring hard drives in the Kubernetes container orchestration system and provides a comparative analysis of them. Based on the presented analysis, a conclusion is drawn on the need to improve and automate approaches. The paper proposes an approach to automating the collection of metrics from hard drives by implementing the Kubernetes “operator” for a tool with which you can effectively obtain information about the state of hard drives in the system. As results, the temporal characteristics of collecting information about disks using existing approaches and the proposed approach are given. Numerical results and graphs showing the gain of the proposed approach are presented.