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Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

By : Gigi Sayfan
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Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

By: Gigi Sayfan

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is among the most popular open source platforms for automating the deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts, providing a container-centric infrastructure. Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes starts by providing you with in-depth insights into the synergy between Kubernetes and microservices. You will learn how to use Delinkcious, which will serve as a live lab throughout the book to help you understand microservices and Kubernetes concepts in the context of a real-world application. Next, you will get up to speed with setting up a CI/CD pipeline and configuring microservices using Kubernetes ConfigMaps. As you cover later chapters, you will gain hands-on experience in securing microservices and implementing REST, gRPC APIs, and a Delinkcious data store. In addition to this, you’ll explore the Nuclio project, run a serverless task on Kubernetes, and manage and implement data-intensive tests. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll deploy microservices on Kubernetes and learn to maintain a well-monitored system. Finally, you’ll discover the importance of service meshes and how to incorporate Istio into the Delinkcious cluster. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the skills you need to implement microservices on Kubernetes with the help of effective tools and best practices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Introduction to Kubernetes for Developers

In this chapter, we will introduce you to Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a big platform and it's difficult to do justice to it in just one chapter. Luckily, we have a whole book to explore it. Don't worry if you feel a little overwhelmed. I'll mention many concepts and capabilities briefly. In later chapters, we will cover many of these in detail, as well as the connections and interactions between those Kubernetes concepts. To spice things up and get hands-on early, you will also create a local Kubernetes cluster (Minikube) on your machine. This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Kubernetes in a nutshell
  • The Kubernetes architecture
  • Kubernetes and microservices
  • Creating a local cluster