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Mastering Kubernetes - Fourth Edition

By : Gigi Sayfan
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Mastering Kubernetes - Fourth Edition

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By: Gigi Sayfan

Overview of this book

The fourth edition of the bestseller Mastering Kubernetes includes the most recent tools and code to enable you to learn the latest features of Kubernetes 1.25. This book contains a thorough exploration of complex concepts and best practices to help you master the skills of designing and deploying large-scale distributed systems on Kubernetes clusters. You’ll learn how to run complex stateless and stateful microservices on Kubernetes, including advanced features such as horizontal pod autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas, and persistent storage backends. In addition, you’ll understand how to utilize serverless computing and service meshes. Further, two new chapters have been added. “Governing Kubernetes” covers the problem of policy management, how admission control addresses it, and how policy engines provide a powerful governance solution. “Running Kubernetes in Production” shows you what it takes to run Kubernetes at scale across multiple cloud providers, multiple geographical regions, and multiple clusters, and it also explains how to handle topics such as upgrades, capacity planning, dealing with cloud provider limits/quotas, and cost management. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll have a strong understanding of, and hands-on experience with, a wide range of Kubernetes capabilities.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Introducing the Gardener project

The Gardener project is an open source project developed by SAP. It lets you manage thousands (yes, thousands!) of Kubernetes clusters efficiently and economically. Gardener solves a very complex problem, and the solution is elegant but not simple. Gardener is the only project that addresses both the cluster lifecycle and application lifecycle.

In this section, we will cover the terminology of Gardener and its conceptual model, dive deep into its architecture, and learn about its extensibility features. The primary theme of Gardener is to use Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes clusters. A good way to think about Gardener is Kubernetes-control-plane-as-a-service.

See https://gardener.cloud for more details.

Understanding the terminology of Gardener

The Gardener project, as you may have guessed, uses botanical terminology to describe the world. There is a garden, which is a Kubernetes cluster responsible for managing seed clusters. A seed...