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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By : Alexander Raul
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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By: Alexander Raul

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is a modern cloud native container orchestration tool and one of the most popular open source projects worldwide. In addition to the technology being powerful and highly flexible, Kubernetes engineers are in high demand across the industry. This book is a comprehensive guide to deploying, securing, and operating modern cloud native applications on Kubernetes. From the fundamentals to Kubernetes best practices, the book covers essential aspects of configuring applications. You’ll even explore real-world techniques for running clusters in production, tips for setting up observability for cluster resources, and valuable troubleshooting techniques. Finally, you’ll learn how to extend and customize Kubernetes, as well as gaining tips for deploying service meshes, serverless tooling, and more on your cluster. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll be equipped with the tools you need to confidently run and extend modern applications on Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Setting Up Kubernetes
5
Section 2: Configuring and Deploying Applications on Kubernetes
11
Section 3: Running Kubernetes in Production
16
Section 4: Extending Kubernetes

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed several methods for creating a Kubernetes cluster. We looked at minimal local cluster creation using minikube, setting up clusters on managed Kubernetes services on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, creating clusters using the Kops provisioning tool, and finally, manually creating a cluster from scratch.

Now that we have the skills to create a Kubernetes cluster in several different environments, we can move on to using Kubernetes to run applications.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to start running applications on Kubernetes. The knowledge you've gained about how Kubernetes works at the architectural level should make it much easier to understand the concepts in the next few chapters.