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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

Exploring DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes

DigitalOcean, much like Linode, markets toward the notion of an easy cloud to use compared to other large clouds with (what feels like) millions of services to choose from. DigitalOcean’s slogan is Simpler cloud. Happier devs. Better results. Over the years, DigitalOcean wasn’t only known for its cloud platform, but its blogs and how-to guides. DigitalOcean, for many engineers, became the standard go-to online location for learning how to do something in a hands-on fashion. Many writers use the DigitalOcean Technical Writing Guidelines that DigitalOcean created for writer/blogger best practices.

In this section, you’re going to learn about why you’d want to use DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes, the pros of the Kubernetes service, setting up DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes manually, and taking the same manual process, but doing it in an automated fashion with Terraform.

Why DigitalOcean Kubernetes Engine?

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