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Mastering Kubernetes - Second Edition

By : Gigi Sayfan
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Mastering Kubernetes - Second Edition

By: Gigi Sayfan

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is an open source system that is used to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. If you are running more containers or want automated management of your containers, you need Kubernetes at your disposal. To put things into perspective, Mastering Kubernetes walks you through the advanced management of Kubernetes clusters. To start with, you will learn the fundamentals of both Kubernetes architecture and Kubernetes design in detail. You will discover how to run complex stateful microservices on Kubernetes including advanced features such as horizontal pod autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas, and persistent storage backend. Using real-world use cases, you will explore the options for network configuration, and understand how to set up, operate, and troubleshoot various Kubernetes networking plugins. In addition to this, you will get to grips with custom resource development and utilization in automation and maintenance workflows. To scale up your knowledge of Kubernetes, you will encounter some additional concepts based on the Kubernetes 1.10 release, such as Promethus, Role-based access control, API aggregation, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll know everything you need to graduate from intermediate to advanced level of understanding Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting. This is a crucial aspect of operating any system and, in particular, a platform such as Kubernetes with so many moving pieces. My greatest worry whenever I'm responsible for something is that something will go wrong and I will have no systematic way to figure out what's wrong and how to fix it. Kubernetes has ample tools and facilities built in, such as Heapster, logging, DaemonSets, and node problem detector. You can also deploy any kind of monitoring solution you prefer.

In Chapter 4, High Availability and Reliability, we will look at highly available and scalable Kubernetes clusters. This is arguably the most important use case for Kubernetes, where it shines compared with other orchestration solutions.