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Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide

By : Scott Surovich, Marc Boorshtein
Book Image

Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide

By: Scott Surovich, Marc Boorshtein

Overview of this book

Containerization has changed the DevOps game completely, with Docker and Kubernetes playing important roles in altering the flow of app creation and deployment. This book will help you acquire the knowledge and tools required to integrate Kubernetes clusters in an enterprise environment. The book begins by introducing you to Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals, including a review of basic Kubernetes objects. You’ll then get to grips with containerization and understand its core functionalities, including how to create ephemeral multinode clusters using kind. As you make progress, you’ll learn about cluster architecture, Kubernetes cluster deployment, and cluster management, and get started with application deployment. Moving on, you’ll find out how to integrate your container to a cloud platform and integrate tools including MetalLB, externalDNS, OpenID connect (OIDC), pod security policies (PSPs), Open Policy Agent (OPA), Falco, and Velero. Finally, you will discover how to deploy an entire platform to the cloud using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). By the end of this Kubernetes book, you will have learned how to create development clusters for testing applications and Kubernetes components, and be able to secure and audit a cluster by implementing various open-source solutions including OpenUnison, OPA, Falco, Kibana, and Velero.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Docker and Container Fundamentals
5
Section 2: Creating Kubernetes Development Clusters, Understanding objects, and Exposing Services
9
Section 3: Running Kubernetes in the Enterprise

Falco kernel module

Falco deploys a kernel module to monitor system calls on the host system. Since kernel modules must be compatible with the host kernel, you need to have a module that works with the worker node's host operating system.

Falco attempts to load or create a module in a few different ways:

  • If there is a pre-built module available for the hosts kernel, Falco will download and use the module automatically.
  • If no pre-built module exists for the worker node's kernel, Falco will attempt to build a module using any installed kernel-headers from the host.

At the time of writing, Falco offers an early-access alternative method for Falco probes, where they are created using a utility called driverkit. This new utility automates the creation of a new probe based on the kernel information of the host machine. The process of creating a probe using driverkit will be covered in detail since we will use it to create a Falco probe for our KinD cluster...