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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

Understanding Linode Kubernetes Engine

Linode, recently acquired by Akami Technologies, is a developer-friendly private cloud that is very well-known for its easy dashboard and feature-rich platform that isn’t overly complex. Linode focuses on ease of use with a cloud -for -all mindset. Some key callouts for Linode include transparent pricing with almost zero guesswork, easily scalable workloads, a full/public API, and a GUI-based cloud manager. Most of all, Linode is known for its always human customer support.

When it comes to comparing Linode and other private cloud providers, Linode sticks out by offering cloud GPUs and high outbound transfer speeds, along with its customer support.

In this section, you’re going to learn about why you’d want to use Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) and how to set up the LKE portal, create a Kubernetes cluster in LKE manually, take the same manual process to automate it, and deploy your Kubernetes workloads.

Why LKE?

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