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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)

Building a cluster

The information contained within this chapter is just one possible way that you could approach building and managing a cluster. When building a Kubernetes cluster, there are many choices to be made, and almost as many tools that could be chosen. For the purposes of this chapter, I have chosen to use tools that make it simple to illustrate the process of building a cluster. If you or your team has a preference for using different tools, then the concepts and architecture outlined in this chapter will transfer quite easily to other tools.

In this chapter, we are going to launch our cluster in a way that will make it more suitable for production workloads. Much of what we do here will be familiar to you from Chapter 3, Reach for the Cloud, but we are going to build on the process we outlined there in two key ways. Firstly, when building infrastructure that you...