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The KCNA Book

The KCNA Book

By : Nigel Poulton
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The KCNA Book

The KCNA Book

By: Nigel Poulton

Overview of this book

There is a huge benefit in building small, specialized, single-purpose apps that can self-heal, auto scale, and update regularly without needing downtime. Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies come in handy in building such apps. Possessing the knowledge and skills to leverage Kubernetes can positively enhance possibilities in favor of architects who specialize in cloud-native microservices applications. ‘The KCNA Book’ is designed to help those working in technology with a passion to become certified in the Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Associate Exam. You will learn about containerization, microservices, and cloud-native architecture. You will learn about Kubernetes fundamentals and container orchestration. The book also sheds light on cloud-native application delivery and observability. It focuses on the KCNA exam domains and competencies, which can be applied to the sample test included in the book. Put your knowledge to the test and enhance your skills with the all-encompassing topic coverage. Upon completion, you will begin your journey to get the best roles, projects, and organizations with this exam-oriented book.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Appendix B: Sample Test answers

GitOps

The idea of GitOps became popular in 2017 following Alexi Richardson’s blog post on the Weaveworks website titled Operations by Pull Request.

At a high-level, it takes the battle-tested DevOps practices we’ve been using for years in software development and brings them to the world of infrastructure and Kubernetes. If you’ve just read the section on CI/CD, GitOps builds on these by adding version control and pull requests.

Keeping it high-level, you describe the desired state of your infrastructure in configuration files that you store in a Git repo for version control. Every time you make a change to your environment you check the files out of Git, update them with your changes, and submit a Pull Request (PR) to merge the changes into the repo. As soon as the PR is merged, the process of deploying the changes to your live environment kicks in.

Although there are lots of GitOps tools, such as Argo, Flux and Jenkins X, GitOps is actually a collection of...

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