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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

Kubernetes challenges

Is Kubernetes the answer to everything to do with infrastructure? Not at all. Let’s look at some challenges, such as Kubernetes’ complexity, and some alternative solutions for the problem of developing, deploying, and managing large-scale systems.

Kubernetes complexity

Kubernetes is a large, powerful, and extensible platform. It is mostly un-opinionated and very flexible. It has a huge surface area with a lot of resources and APIs. In addition, Kubernetes has a huge ecosystem. That translates to a system that is extremely difficult to learn and master. What does it say about Kubernetes’ future? One likely scenario is that most developers will not interact with Kubernetes directly. Simplified solutions built on top of Kubernetes will be the primary access point for most developers.

If Kubernetes is fully abstracted, then it may become a threat to its future since Kubernetes, as the underlying implementation, might be replaced by...