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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)
1
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

Docker bind mounts

The second option you can use to provide persistent data to a container is called a bind mount. Overall, volumes and bind mounts may look similar; both use the local host's filesystem, and both are mounted using the docker -v option. While they do share many of the same characteristics, a bind mount differs from a volume mount in one main area: it is not managed by Docker.

Unlike a Docker volume, a bind mount cannot be created by Docker. You cannot create a bind mount using the docker volume create option; however, a bind mount can be created automatically by Docker when a container starts. Even though Docker can create the bind mount location on the host, it does not "manage" the mount.

Since Docker does not manage the bind mounts, they cannot be deleted using a Docker command. Docker does not track the location of bind mounts in a list. If you create bind mounts in different areas of the filesystem on the host, you need to track the location...