Chapter 1, Introduction to Design Methodology, kicks off the book by analyzing a proposed problem, as well as what the correct questions are to ask when designing a solution, in order to extract the necessary information to define the correct problem statement.
Chapter 2, Defining GlusterFS Storage, goes through what GlusterFS is and defines a storage cluster.
Chapter 3, Architecting a Storage Cluster, explores the design aspects of implementing a clustered storage solution using GlusterFS and its various components.
Chapter 4, Using GlusterFS on the Cloud Infrastructure, explains the configuration necessary to implement GlusterFS on the cloud.
Chapter 5, Analyzing Performance in a Gluster System, details the previously configured solution, explaining the configurations put in place, as well as testing the implementation for performance.
Chapter 6, Creating a Highly Available Self-Healing Architecture, talks about how the IT industry has evolved from using monolithic applications into cloud-native, containerized, highly available microservices.
Chapter 7, Understanding the Core Components of a Kubernetes Cluster, explores the core Kubernetes components, giving a view of each one and how they can help us solve our customer's problem.
Chapter 8, Architecting a Kubernetes Cluster, dives into the requirements and configurations for a Kubernetes cluster.
Chapter 9, Deploying and Configuring Kubernetes, goes into the actual installation and configuration of a Kubernetes cluster.
Chapter 10, Monitoring with the ELK Stack, explains what each component of the Elastic Stack is and how they're connected.
Chapter 11, Designing an ELK Stack, covers the design considerations when deploying an Elastic Stack.
Chapter 12, Using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to Manage Logs, describes the implementation, installation, and configuration of the Elastic Stack.
Chapter 13, Solving Management Problems with Salty Solutions, discusses the business needs to have a centralized management utility for infrastructure, such as Salt.
Chapter 14, Getting Your Hands Salty, examines how to install and configure Salt.
Chapter 15, Design Best Practices, takes you through some of the different best practices needed to design a resilient and failure-proof solution.