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DevOps with Kubernetes - Second Edition

By : Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Cheng-Yang Wu
Book Image

DevOps with Kubernetes - Second Edition

By: Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Cheng-Yang Wu

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has been widely adopted across public clouds and on-premise data centers. As we're living in an era of microservices, knowing how to use and manage Kubernetes is an essential skill for everyone in the IT industry. This book is a guide to everything you need to know about Kubernetes—from simply deploying a container to administrating Kubernetes clusters wisely. You'll learn about DevOps fundamentals, as well as deploying a monolithic application as microservices and using Kubernetes to orchestrate them. You will then gain an insight into the Kubernetes network, extensions, authentication and authorization. With the DevOps spirit in mind, you'll learn how to allocate resources to your application and prepare to scale them efficiently. Knowing the status and activity of the application and clusters is crucial, so we’ll learn about monitoring and logging in Kubernetes. Having an improved ability to observe your services means that you will be able to build a continuous delivery pipeline with confidence. At the end of the book, you'll learn how to run managed Kubernetes services on three top cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed Google Cloud Platform. Its basic concept is similar to AWS, but some policies and concepts are different. This is particularly the case for Google Container Engine, as this is a very powerful service for using Kubernetes as production grade. Kubernetes cluster and node management is quite easy to install and upgrade. The cloud provider is also fully integrated with GCP (especially ingress, as this can configure the L7 LoadBalancer with one command). Consequently, it's highly recommended you try GKE if you plan to use Kubernetes on the public cloud.

Chapter 12, Kubernetes on Azure, will explore one more public cloud service named Microsoft Azure, which also provides a managed Kubernetes service.