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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)

Delinkcious - the Sample Application

Delinkcious is a Delicious (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)) wannabe. Delicious used to be an internet hit that managed links for users. It was acquired by Yahoo, was bounced around, and sold multiple times. It was eventually purchased by Pinboard, which runs a similar service and intends to shut down Delicious soon.

Delinkcious allows users store URLs in cool places on the web, tag them, and query them in various ways. Throughout this book, Delinkcious will serve as a live lab to demonstrate many microservices and Kubernetes concepts, as well as features in the context of a real-world application. The focus will be on the backend, so there will be no snazzy frontend web application or mobile app. I'll leave those as the dreaded exercise for you.

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