How container auto-discovery works with the Docker SDK and client-go
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A monitoring tool can find your containers on its own, with no list of targets to write. There is no magic involved: it relies on the Docker and Kubernetes APIs, which already know everything about what is running. This post walks through how Maintenant, a Go monitoring tool, does it with the Docker SDK for Go and client-go. Runtime detection On startup, the tool runs a detection sequence: If the MAINTENANT_RUNTIME environment variable is set, it forces the mode Otherwise, if KUBER