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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, we learned the stateful application challenges and best practices to consider when choosing the best storage management solutions, both open source and commercial, and finally, the stateful application considerations when deploying them in production using Kubernetes' StatefulSet and deployment objects.

We deployed the AWS EBS CSI driver and OpenEBS. We also created a highly available replicated storage using OpenEBS and deployed our application on OpenEBS volumes.

We gained a solid understanding of Kubernetes storage in this chapter, but you should perform a detailed evaluation of your cluster storage requirements and take further action to deploy any extra tools and configurations that may be required, including your storage provider's CSI driver.

In the next chapter, we will learn in detail about seamless and reliable applications. We will also get to grips with containerization best practices to easily scale our applications.