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The Kubernetes Workshop

By : Zachary Arnold, Sahil Dua, Wei Huang, Faisal Masood, Mélony Qin, Mohammed Abu Taleb
Book Image

The Kubernetes Workshop

By: Zachary Arnold, Sahil Dua, Wei Huang, Faisal Masood, Mélony Qin, Mohammed Abu Taleb

Overview of this book

Thanks to its extensive support for managing hundreds of containers that run cloud-native applications, Kubernetes is the most popular open source container orchestration platform that makes cluster management easy. This workshop adopts a practical approach to get you acquainted with the Kubernetes environment and its applications. Starting with an introduction to the fundamentals of Kubernetes, you’ll install and set up your Kubernetes environment. You’ll understand how to write YAML files and deploy your first simple web application container using Pod. You’ll then assign human-friendly names to Pods, explore various Kubernetes entities and functions, and discover when to use them. As you work through the chapters, this Kubernetes book will show you how you can make full-scale use of Kubernetes by applying a variety of techniques for designing components and deploying clusters. You’ll also get to grips with security policies for limiting access to certain functions inside the cluster. Toward the end of the book, you’ll get a rundown of Kubernetes advanced features for building your own controller and upgrading to a Kubernetes cluster without downtime. By the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to manage containers and run cloud-based applications efficiently using Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Preface

Service

A Service defines policies by which a logical set of Pods can be accessed. Kubernetes Services enable communication between various components of our application, as well as between different applications. Services help us connect the application with other applications or users. For example, let's say we have a set of Pods running the frontend of an application, a set of Pods running the backend, and another set of Pods connecting the data source. The frontend is the one that users need to interact with directly. The frontend then needs to connect to the backend, which, in turn, needs to talk to the external data source.

Consider you are making a survey app that also allows users to make visualizations based on their survey results. Using a bit of simplification, we can imagine three Deployments – one that runs the forms' frontend to collect the data, another that validates and stores the data, and a third one that runs the data visualization application...