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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

Governing Kubernetes

In the previous chapter, we discussed at length different ways to extend Kubernetes, including validating and mutating requests during the admission control phase.

In this chapter, we will learn about the growing role of Kubernetes in large enterprise organizations, what governance is, and how it is applied in Kubernetes. We will look at policy engines, review some popular ones, and then dive deep into Kyverno.

This ties in nicely with the previous chapter because policy engines are built on top of the Kubernetes admission control mechanism.

More and more enterprise organizations put more and more of their proverbial eggs in the Kubernetes basket. These large organizations have severe security, compliance, and governance needs. Kubernetes policy engines are here to address these concerns and make sure that enterprise organizations can fully embrace Kubernetes.

Here are the topics we will cover:

  • Kubernetes in the enterprise
  • What...