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Kubernetes in Production Best Practices

By : Aly Saleh, Murat Karslioglu
Book Image

Kubernetes in Production Best Practices

By: Aly Saleh, Murat Karslioglu

Overview of this book

Although out-of-the-box solutions can help you to get a cluster up and running quickly, running a Kubernetes cluster that is optimized for production workloads is a challenge, especially for users with basic or intermediate knowledge. With detailed coverage of cloud industry standards and best practices for achieving scalability, availability, operational excellence, and cost optimization, this Kubernetes book is a blueprint for managing applications and services in production. You'll discover the most common way to deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters, which is to use a public cloud-managed service from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This book explores Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), the AWS-managed version of Kubernetes, for working through practical exercises. As you get to grips with implementation details specific to AWS and EKS, you'll understand the design concepts, implementation best practices, and configuration applicable to other cloud-managed services. Throughout the book, you’ll also discover standard and cloud-agnostic tools, such as Terraform and Ansible, for provisioning and configuring infrastructure. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to leverage Kubernetes to operate and manage your production environments confidently.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Technical requirements

We will need the Terraform tool installed for this chapter as a prerequisite.

In addition to this tool, you will need to have an AWS account and user credentials ready to use. Please ensure the authentication of the AWS CLI with your AWS credentials. You can refer to the AWS documentation for further instructions at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html.

The code for this chapter is located at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Kubernetes-in-Production-Best-Practices/tree/master/Chapter03.

Check out the following link to see the Code in Action video:

https://bit.ly/39Ocoyq

Installing Terraform

Terraform binary is a command-line utility that is used to develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC), plan, and execute it to create resources, and manage infrastructure providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Fastly, OKTA, and more.

You can follow the instructions in the official documentation to download the latest version...