What this book covers
Chapter 1, Communicating with Kubernetes, introduces you to the concept of container orchestration and the fundamentals of how Kubernetes works. It also gives you the basic tools you need in order to communicate with and authenticate with a Kubernetes cluster.
Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Kubernetes Cluster, walks you through creating a Kubernetes cluster in a few different popular ways, both on your local machine and on the cloud.
Chapter 3, Running Application Containers on Kubernetes, introduces you to the most basic building block of running applications on Kubernetes – the Pod. We cover how to create a Pod, as well as the specifics of the Pod lifecycle.
Chapter 4, Scaling and Deploying Your Application, reviews higher-level controllers, which allow the scaling and upgrading of multiple Pods of an application, including autoscaling.
Chapter 5, Services and Ingress – Communicating with the Outside World, introduces several approaches to exposing applications running in a Kubernetes cluster to users on the outside.
Chapter 6, Kubernetes Application Configuration, gives you the skills you need to provide configuration (including secure data) to applications running on Kubernetes.
Chapter 7, Storage on Kubernetes, reviews methods and tools to provide persistent and non-persistent storage to applications running on Kubernetes.
Chapter 8, Pod Placement Controls, introduces several different tools and strategies for controlling and influencing Pod placement on Kubernetes Nodes.
Chapter 9, Observability on Kubernetes, covers multiple tenets of observability in the context of Kubernetes, including metrics, tracing, and logging.
Chapter 10, Troubleshooting Kubernetes, reviews some key ways Kubernetes clusters can fail – as well as how to effectively triage issues on Kubernetes.
Chapter 11, Template Code Generation and CI/CD on Kubernetes, introduces Kubernetes YAML templating tooling and some common patterns for CI/CD on Kubernetes.
Chapter 12, Kubernetes Security and Compliance, covers the basics of security on Kubernetes, including some recent security issues with the Kubernetes project, and tooling for cluster and container security.
Chapter 13, Extending Kubernetes with CRDs, introduces Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) along with other ways to add custom functionality to Kubernetes, such as operators.
Chapter 14, Service Meshes and Serverless, reviews some advanced patterns on Kubernetes, teaching you how to add a service mesh to your cluster and enable serverless workloads.
Chapter 15, Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes, walks you through the specifics of running stateful workloads on Kubernetes, including a tutorial on running some powerful stateful applications from the ecosystem.