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Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide

By : Scott Surovich, Marc Boorshtein
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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
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Section 3: Running Kubernetes in the Enterprise

Who this book is for

We created this book to help DevOps teams to expand their skills beyond the basics of Kubernetes. It was created from the years of experience we have working with clusters in multiple enterprise environments.

There are many books available that introduce Kubernetes and the basics of installing clusters, creating deployments, and using Kubernetes objects. Our plan was to create a book that would go beyond a basic cluster, and in order to keep the book a reasonable length, we will not re-hash the basics of Kubernetes. You should have some experience with Kubernetes before reading this book.

While the primary focus of the book is to extend clusters with enterprise features, the first section of the book will provide a refresher of key Docker topics, and Kubernetes objects. It is important that you have a solid understanding of Kubernetes objects in order to get the most out of the more advanced chapters.