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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)

Security

Some of the key areas that impact security are show in this diagram:

Securing the configuration and software that forms the infrastructure of your cluster is of vital importance, especially if you plan to expose the services you run on it to the internet.

You should consider that if you expose services to the public internet that have well known software vulnerabilities or configuration errors, it may only be a matter of hours before your services are detected by automated tools being used to scan for vulnerable systems.

It is important that you treat the security of your cluster as a moving target. This means that you, or a tool that you use, need to be aware of new software vulnerabilities and configuration vulnerabilities.

Vulnerabilities with the Kubernetes software, and with the underlying operating system software of your hosts, will be updated and patched by the...