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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

Working with Kubernetes DNS


When you deploy many pods to a Kubernetes cluster, service discovery is one of the most important functions, because podsmay depend on other pods but the IP address of a pod willbe changedwhen it restarts. You need to have a flexible way to communicate a pod's IP address to other pods. Kubernetes has an add-on featurecalledkube-dns that helps in this scenario. It can register and look up an IP address for pods and Kubernetes Services.

In this section, we will explore how to usekube-dns, which gives you a flexible way to configure DNS in your Kubernetes cluster.

Getting ready

Since Kubernetes version 1.3, kube-dns has come with Kubernetes and is enabled by default.To check whether kube-dns is working or not, check the kube-system namespace with the following command:

$ kubectl get deploy kube-dns --namespace=kube-system
NAME       DESIRED   CURRENT   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
kube-dns   1         1         1            1           1d

If you are using minikube, type...