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Kubernetes for Developers

By : Joseph Heck
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Kubernetes for Developers

By: Joseph Heck

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is documented and typically approached from the perspective of someone running software that has already been built. Kubernetes may also be used to enhance the development process, enabling more consistent testing and analysis of code to help developers verify not only its correctness, but also its efficiency. This book introduces key Kubernetes concepts, coupled with examples of how to deploy and use them with a bit of Node.js and Python example code, so that you can quickly replicate and use that knowledge. You will begin by setting up Kubernetes to help you develop and package your code. We walk you through the setup and installation process before working with Kubernetes in the development environment. We then delve into concepts such as automating your build process, autonomic computing, debugging, and integration testing. This book covers all the concepts required for a developer to work with Kubernetes. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to use Kubernetes in development ecosystems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Continuous integration with Kubernetes


Once you have integration tests, getting something operational to validate those tests is very important. If you don't run the tests, they're effectively useless—so having a means of consistently invoking the tests while you're doing development is important. It is fairly common to see continuous integration do a lot of the automated lifting for development.

There are a number of options available to development teams to help you with continuous integration, or even its more advanced cousin, continuous deployment. The following tools are an overview of what was available at the time of writing, and in use by developers working with their code in containers and/or in Kubernetes:

  • Travis.CI: Travis.CI (https://travis-ci.org/) is a hosted continuous integration service, and it is quite popular as the company offers free service with an easy means of plugging into GitHub for public and open source repositories. Quite a number of open source projects leverage...