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Getting Started with Containerization

By : Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker, Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
Book Image

Getting Started with Containerization

By: Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker, Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration platform for managing containers in a cluster environment. This Learning Path introduces you to the world of containerization, in addition to providing you with an overview of Docker fundamentals. As you progress, you will be able to understand how Kubernetes works with containers. Starting with creating Kubernetes clusters and running applications with proper authentication and authorization, you'll learn how to create high-availability Kubernetes clusters on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and also learn how to use kubeconfig to manage different clusters. Whether it is learning about Docker containers and Docker Compose, or building a continuous delivery pipeline for your application, this Learning Path will equip you with all the right tools and techniques to get started with containerization. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have gained hands-on experience of working with Docker containers and orchestrators, including SwarmKit and Kubernetes. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition by Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, and Ke-Jou Carol Hsu • Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x by Gabriel N. Schenker
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Submitting Jobs on Kubernetes


Your container application is designed not only for daemon processes such as nginx, but also for some batch Jobs which eventually exit when the task is complete. Kubernetes supports this scenario; you can submit a container as a Job and Kubernetes will dispatch to an appropriate node and execute your Job.

In this recipe, we will discuss two new features: Jobs and CronJob. These two features can make another usage of Pods to utilize your resources.

Getting ready

Since Kubernetes version 1.2, Kubernetes Jobs has been introduced as a stable feature (apiVersion: batch/v1). In addition, CronJob is a beta feature (apiVersion: batch/v1beta1) as of Kubernetes version 1.10.

Both work well on minikube, which was introduced at Chapter 12, Building Your Own Kubernetes Cluster. Therefore, this recipe will use minikube version 0.24.1.

How to do it...

When submitting a Job to Kubernetes, you have three types of Job that you can define:

  • Single Job
  • Repeat Job
  • Parallel Job

Pod as a single...