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Kubernetes on AWS

By : Ed Robinson
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Kubernetes on AWS

By: Ed Robinson

Overview of this book

Docker containers promise to radicalize the way developers and operations build, deploy, and manage applications running on the cloud. Kubernetes provides the orchestration tools you need to realize that promise in production. Kubernetes on AWS guides you in deploying a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on the AWS platform. You will then discover how to utilize the power of Kubernetes, which is one of the fastest growing platforms for production-based container orchestration, to manage and update your applications. Kubernetes is becoming the go-to choice for production-grade deployments of cloud-native applications. This book covers Kubernetes from first principles. You will start by learning about Kubernetes' powerful abstractions - Pods and Services - that make managing container deployments easy. This will be followed by a guided tour through setting up a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on AWS, while learning the techniques you need to successfully deploy and manage your own applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained plenty of hands-on experience with Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services. You will also have picked up some tips on deploying and managing applications, keeping your cluster and applications secure, and ensuring that your whole system is reliable and resilient to failure.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Managing Container Images

A container orchestration platform needs a solid foundation to run our containers. One vital piece of infrastructure is the location where we store our container images, which will allow us to reliably fetch them when creating our pods.

From a developer's point of view, it should be very easy and fast to push new images whilst developing the software we wish to deploy to Kubernetes. We'll also want to have mechanisms that help us with versioning, cataloging, and describing how to use our images, in order to facilitate deployments and reduce the risk of delivering the wrong version or configuration of our software.

Container images can often contain intellectual property, proprietary source code, infrastructure configuration secrets, and even business secrets. Therefore, we need to have proper authentication and authorization mechanisms to protect...