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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)

StatefulSet

So far, we have seen how we can use Kubernetes to automatically provision EBS volumes for PersistentVolumeClaim. This can be very useful for a number of applications where we need a single volume to provide persistence to a single pod.

We run into problems though, as soon as we try to scale our deployment up. Pods running on the same node may end up sharing the volume. But as EBS volumes can only be attached to a single instance at any one time, any pods scheduled to another node will get stuck with the ContainerCreating status, waiting endlessly for the EBS volume to be attached.

If you are running an application where you want each replica to have its own unique volume, we can use a stateful set. Stateful sets have two key advantages over deployments when we want to deploy applications where each replica needs to have its own persistent storage.

Firstly, instead...