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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
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Section 2: Creating Kubernetes Development Clusters, Understanding objects, and Exposing Services
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Section 3: Running Kubernetes in the Enterprise

Summary

This chapter covered how to create an enhanced auditing system to your Kubernetes cluster. We started the chapter by introducing Falco, an auditing add-on that was donated to the CNCF by Sysdig. Falco adds a level of auditing that Kubernetes does not include, and combined with the including auditing functionality, provides an audit trail for everything from API access to actions in a pod.

Logs aren't beneficial if you can't store them in a logging system that allows you to store logs on persistent storage and usually offers a management interface to search logs and create dashboards. We installed the common EFK stack on our KinD cluster and created a custom dashboard to show Falco events in Kibana.

With the topics you learned in this chapter, you should have a strong foundational knowledge of how to add Falco to a cluster and use EFK to store logs and present data in visualizations and dashboards.

While logging and auditing are important, it is equally important...