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Mastering Kubernetes

By : Gigi Sayfan
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Mastering Kubernetes

By: Gigi Sayfan

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is an open source system to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. If you are running more than just a few containers or want automated management of your containers, you need Kubernetes. This book mainly focuses on the advanced management of Kubernetes clusters. It covers problems that arise when you start using container orchestration in production. We start by giving you an overview of the guiding principles in Kubernetes design and show you the best practises in the fields of security, high availability, and cluster federation. You will discover how to run complex stateful microservices on Kubernetes including advanced features as horizontal pod autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas, and persistent storage back ends. Using real-world use cases, we explain the options for network configuration and provides guidelines on how to set up, operate, and troubleshoot various Kubernetes networking plugins. Finally, we cover custom resource development and utilization in automation and maintenance workflows. By the end of this book, you’ll know everything you need to know to go from intermediate to advanced level.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Kubernetes
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

The Kubernetes momentum


Kubernetes has tremendous momentum behind it. The community is super strong. Users flock to Kubernetes as its mindshare increases, the technical press acknowledges its number one leadership position, the eco-system is sizzling, and a lot of big corporations and companies (in addition to Google) support it.

Community

The Kubernetes community is one of its greatest assets. Kubernetes recently joined the CNCF.

GitHub

Kubernetes is developed on GitHub and is one of the top projects on GitHub. It is in the top 0.01 percent in stars and number one in terms of activity.

More professionals list Kubernetes in their LinkedIn profile than any other comparable offering by a wide margin.

More than 1,000 contributors and 34,000 commits:

Conferences and meetups

Another indication of Kubernetes momentum is the number of conferences, meetups, and attendees. KubeCon is growing quickly and new Kubernetes meetups open up every day.

Mindshare

Kubernetes is getting a lot of attention and deployments...