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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

The Kubernetes momentum

Kubernetes is undeniably a juggernaut. Not only did Kubernetes beat all the other container orchestrators, but it is also the de facto solution on public clouds, utilized in many private clouds, and even VMware – the virtual machine company – is focused on Kubernetes solutions and integrating its products with Kubernetes.

Kubernetes works very well in multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud scenarios due to its extensible design.

In addition, Kubernetes makes inroads on the edge, too, with custom distributions that expand its broad applicability even more.

The Kubernetes project continues to release a new version every three months, like clockwork. The community just keeps growing.

The Kubernetes GitHub repository has almost 100,000 stars. One of the major drivers of this phenomenal growth is the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation).

Figure 18.1: Star History chart

The importance of the CNCF

The CNCF has become a very...