Book Image

Getting Started with Kubernetes - Third Edition

By : Jonathan Baier, White
Book Image

Getting Started with Kubernetes - Third Edition

By: Jonathan Baier, White

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has continued to grow and achieve broad adoption across various industries, helping you to orchestrate and automate container deployments on a massive scale. Based on the recent release of Kubernetes 1.12, Getting Started with Kubernetes gives you a complete understanding of how to install a Kubernetes cluster. The book focuses on core Kubernetes constructs, such as pods, services, replica sets, replication controllers, and labels. You will understand cluster-level networking in Kubernetes, and learn to set up external access to applications running in the cluster. As you make your way through the book, you'll understand how to manage deployments and perform updates with minimal downtime. In addition to this, you will explore operational aspects of Kubernetes , such as monitoring and logging, later moving on to advanced concepts such as container security and cluster federation. You'll get to grips with integrating your build pipeline and deployments within a Kubernetes cluster, and be able to understand and interact with open source projects. In the concluding chapters, you'll orchestrate updates behind the scenes, avoid downtime on your cluster, and deal with underlying cloud provider instability within your cluster. By the end of this book, you'll have a complete understanding of the Kubernetes platform and will start deploying applications on it.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Hardening Kubernetes

In this chapter, we'll look at considerations for moving to production. We will also show you some helpful tools and third-party projects that are available in the Kubernetes community at large and where you can go to get more help.

This chapter will discuss the following topics:

  • Production characteristics
  • Lessons learned from Kubernetes production
  • Hardening the cluster
  • The Kubernetes ecosystem
  • Where can you get help?