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Kubernetes in Production Best Practices

By : Aly Saleh, Murat Karslioglu
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Kubernetes in Production Best Practices

By: Aly Saleh, Murat Karslioglu

Overview of this book

Although out-of-the-box solutions can help you to get a cluster up and running quickly, running a Kubernetes cluster that is optimized for production workloads is a challenge, especially for users with basic or intermediate knowledge. With detailed coverage of cloud industry standards and best practices for achieving scalability, availability, operational excellence, and cost optimization, this Kubernetes book is a blueprint for managing applications and services in production. You'll discover the most common way to deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters, which is to use a public cloud-managed service from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This book explores Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), the AWS-managed version of Kubernetes, for working through practical exercises. As you get to grips with implementation details specific to AWS and EKS, you'll understand the design concepts, implementation best practices, and configuration applicable to other cloud-managed services. Throughout the book, you’ll also discover standard and cloud-agnostic tools, such as Terraform and Ansible, for provisioning and configuring infrastructure. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to leverage Kubernetes to operate and manage your production environments confidently.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about Kubernetes configuration management challenges and how to scale your configuration management solution to manage multiple clusters and environments. We designed and developed a solution that is based on Ansible, and we went through practical hands-on examples to deploy this code.

We started by creating Ansible templates for Kubernetes objects and add-ons. Then, we developed the tasks and the playbook to execute the Ansible configuration in sequence against the targeted clusters.

This chapter introduced you to Ansible basic concepts. It showed you how to use the best practices of infrastructure and configuration as code, automation, and Ansible development.

This sets up the base for the coming chapters, where you will use this configuration management solution to configure and deploy clusters' add-ons and services where these add-ons are essential to reach production-readiness.

In the next chapter, you will learn about Kubernetes...