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The Complete Kubernetes Guide

By : Jonathan Baier, Gigi Sayfan, Jesse White
Book Image

The Complete Kubernetes Guide

By: Jonathan Baier, Gigi Sayfan, Jesse White

Overview of this book

If you are running a number of containers and want to be able to automate the way they’re managed, it can be helpful to have Kubernetes at your disposal. This Learning Path guides you through core Kubernetes constructs, such as pods, services, replica sets, replication controllers, and labels. You'll get started by learning how to integrate your build pipeline and deployments in a Kubernetes cluster. As you cover more chapters in the Learning Path, you'll get up to speed with orchestrating updates behind the scenes, avoiding downtime on your cluster, and dealing with underlying cloud provider instability in your cluster. With the help of real-world use cases, you'll also explore options for network configuration, and understand how to set up, operate, and troubleshoot various Kubernetes networking plugins. In addition to this, you'll gain insights into custom resource development and utilization in automation and maintenance workflows. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have the expertise you need to progress from an intermediate to an advanced level of understanding Kubernetes. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Getting Started with Kubernetes - Third Edition by Jonathan Baier and Jesse White • Mastering Kubernetes - Second Edition by Gigi Sayfan
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Competition


The first edition of Mastering Kubernetes was published in May 2017. The competitive landscape of Kubernetes was very different then. Here is what I wrote back then:

"Kubernetes operates in one of the hottest technology areas of container orchestration. The future of Kubernetes must be considered as part of the whole market. As you will see, some of the possible competitors may also be partners that promote both their own offering as well as Kubernetes (or at least, Kubernetes can run on their platform)."

In less than a year, the situation has changed drastically. In short, Kubernetes won. All the cloud providers offer managed Kubernetes services. IBM provides support for Kubernetes on bare metal clusters. Companies that develop software and add-ons for container orchestration focus on Kubernetes as opposed to creating products that support multiple orchestration solutions.

The value of bundling

Container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes compete directly and indirectly...