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Connecting the Data: Data Integration Techniques for Building an Operational Data Store (ODS)

By : Angelo Bobak
Book Image

Connecting the Data: Data Integration Techniques for Building an Operational Data Store (ODS)

By: Angelo Bobak

Overview of this book

When organizations change or enhance their internal structures, business data integration is a complex problem that they must resolve. This book describes the common hurdles you might face while working with data integration and shows you various ways to overcome these challenges. The book begins by explaining the foundational concepts of ODS. Once familiar with schema integration, you?ll learn how to reverse engineer each data source for creating a set of data dictionary reports. These reports will provide you with the metadata necessary to apply the schema integration process. As you progress through the chapters, you will learn how to write scripts for populating the source databases and spreadsheets, as well as how to use reports to create Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) specifications. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge necessary to design and build a small ODS.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Site Reliability Engineering – A Prescriptive Way to Implement DevOps
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Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD
Appendix: Getting Ready for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification

Chapter 8: Understanding GKE Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications

Kubernetes or K8s is an open source container orchestration system for automating the application deployment, scaling, and management of a cluster running containerized applications. The previous chapter introduced K8s fundamentals, including cluster anatomy, master plane components, Kubernetes objects (such as Pods and Services), workloads such as Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, and so on, and deep-dived into deployment strategies. However, setting up an open source Kubernetes cluster involves a lot of work at the infrastructure level and will also take a lot of time to set up. This also includes post-maintenance activities such as updating, upgrading, or repairing the cluster. GCP provides a compute offering that provides a managed Kubernetes or K8s environment called Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

The chapter introduces Google Kubernetes Engine as the managed Kubernetes option in GCP and uses...