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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

Upcoming trends

Let’s talk about some of the technological trends in the Kubernetes world that will be important in the near future.

Security

Security is, of course, a paramount concern for large-scale systems. Kubernetes is primarily a platform for managing containerized workloads. Those containerized workloads are often run in a multi-tenant environment. The isolation between tenants is super important. Containers are lightweight and efficient because they share an OS and maintain their isolation through various mechanisms like namespace isolation, filesystem isolation, and cgroup resource isolation. In theory, this should be enough. In practice, the surface area is large, and there were multiple breakouts out of container isolation.

To address this risk, multiple lightweight VMs were designed to add a hypervisor (machine-level virtualization) as an additional isolation level between the container and the OS kernel. The big cloud providers already support these...