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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)

The Future of Microservices and Kubernetes

The software systems of tomorrow will be bigger, more complicated, will be able to handle more data, and will have an even bigger impact on our world. Just think about self-driving cars and ubiquitous robots. The human capacity to deal with complexity will not scale. That means that we will have to use a divide-and-conquer approach to build those complex software systems. Microservice-based architectures will continue to replace monoliths. Then, the challenge will shift into coordinating all those microservices into a coherent whole. This is where Kubernetes comes in as the standard orchestration solution.

In this chapter, we will discuss the near future of microservices and Kubernetes. We will focus on the near future, because the innovation pace is amazing and trying to look much further ahead is futile. The long-term vision is that...