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50 Kubernetes Concepts Every DevOps Engineer Should Know

By : Michael Levan
Book Image

50 Kubernetes Concepts Every DevOps Engineer Should Know

By: Michael Levan

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is a trending topic among engineers, CTOs, CIOs, and other technically sound professionals. Due to its proliferation and importance for all cloud technologies, DevOps engineers nowadays need a solid grasp of key Kubernetes concepts to help their organization thrive. This book equips you with all the requisite information about how Kubernetes works and how to use it for the best results. You’ll learn everything from why cloud native is important to implementing Kubernetes clusters to deploying applications in production. This book takes you on a learning journey, starting from what cloud native is and how to get started with Kubernetes in the cloud, on-premises, and PaaS environments such as OpenShift. Next, you’ll learn about deploying applications in many ways, including Deployment specs, Ingress Specs, and StatefulSet specs. Finally, you’ll be comfortable working with Kubernetes monitoring, observability, and security. Each chapter of 50 Kubernetes Concepts Every DevOps Engineer Should Know is built upon the previous chapter, ensuring that you develop practical skills as you work through the code examples in GitHub, allowing you to follow along while giving you practical knowledge. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to implement Kubernetes in any environment, whether it’s an existing environment, a greenfield environment, or your very own lab running in the cloud or your home.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Part 1: First 20 Kubernetes Concepts – In and Out of the Cloud
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Part 2: Next 15 Kubernetes Concepts – Application Strategy and Deployments
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Part 3: Final 15 Kubernetes Concepts – Security and Monitoring

Summary

Before you can even think about implementing Kubernetes, you need to learn about what the cloud is doing for engineers, what cloud-native applications are doing for engineers, and why organizations need to start thinking about Kubernetes. This is always the first step in any engineering-related decision since it impacts not only you but the organization as a whole. Because of the way that the tech world is changing, understanding the need for implementing cloud-based solutions and how to move fast but start slow is how organizations have successful Kubernetes deployments and a smooth on-ramp from traditional monolithic applications to implementing microservices.

Now that you know the why behind implementing cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and what cloud-native applications do for organizations, it’s time to start learning about how to get started with Kubernetes. We will start the next chapter by understanding how to implement a Kubernetes service in the top three clouds.