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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)

Next steps

Helm is so powerful because it lets you build your own abstractions over a group of Kubernetes resources with very little extra effort. You might need to spend a little time learning how to use the templating language and how to integrate building and updating charts and making and updating releases with your development and release procedures.

Helm can be used for a wide range of scenarios where you want to deploy resources to a Kubernetes cluster, from providing a simple way for others to install an application you have written on their own clusters, to forming the cornerstone of an internal Platform as a Service within a larger organization. Beyond what is included in this chapter, there is a lot more for you to learn.

Helm has excellent documentation that can be accessed at https://docs.helm.sh/.

Another great source for learning how to use Helm effectively is the...