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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

Regardless of what option you decide to go with when deploying Kubernetes, whether it’s in a big cloud, a smaller cloud, or a PaaS solution, the goal is always the same and never changes – build an orchestration platform that can manage your containerized applications.

There are a lot of fancy tools out there, tons of different platforms, and many promises that each new and fancy platform will make your life easier from a Kubernetes perspective. The truth is, in one way or another, they all have the same goal.

The goal is to use Kubernetes to orchestrate and manage containerized applications. Ensure that as you go through each platform and tool, you have this in mind – orchestrate my containerized applications. If you keep that in mind, it’ll make choosing and getting through the marketing fluff much easier.

In the next chapter, we’ll be learning about on-premises Kubernetes and how understanding the underlying components of Kubernetes...