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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)

GitOps

GitOps is a new buzzword, although the concept is not very new. It is another variant of Infrastructure as Code. The basic idea is that your code, configuration, and the resources it requires should all be described and stored in a source control repository where they are version controlled. Whenever you push a change to the repository, your CI/CD solution will respond and take the correct action. Even rollbacks can be initiated just by reverting to a previous version in your repository. The repository doesn't have to be Git, of course, but GitOps sounds way better than Source Control Ops, and most people use Git anyway, so here we are.

Both CircleCI and Argo CD fully support and advocate the GitOps model. When your git push code changes, CircleCI will trigger on it and start building the correct images. When you git push changes to the Kubernetes manifests, Argo CD...