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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By : Alexander Raul
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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By: Alexander Raul

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is a modern cloud native container orchestration tool and one of the most popular open source projects worldwide. In addition to the technology being powerful and highly flexible, Kubernetes engineers are in high demand across the industry. This book is a comprehensive guide to deploying, securing, and operating modern cloud native applications on Kubernetes. From the fundamentals to Kubernetes best practices, the book covers essential aspects of configuring applications. You’ll even explore real-world techniques for running clusters in production, tips for setting up observability for cluster resources, and valuable troubleshooting techniques. Finally, you’ll learn how to extend and customize Kubernetes, as well as gaining tips for deploying service meshes, serverless tooling, and more on your cluster. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll be equipped with the tools you need to confidently run and extend modern applications on Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Setting Up Kubernetes
5
Section 2: Configuring and Deploying Applications on Kubernetes
11
Section 3: Running Kubernetes in Production
16
Section 4: Extending Kubernetes

Chapter 1: Communicating with Kubernetes

This chapter contains an explanation of container orchestration, including its benefits, use cases, and popular implementations. We'll also review Kubernetes briefly, including a layout of the architectural components, and a primer on authorization, authentication, and general communication with Kubernetes. By the end of this chapter, you'll know how to authenticate and communicate with the Kubernetes API.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • A container orchestration primer
  • Kubernetes' architecture
  • Authentication and authorization on Kubernetes
  • Using kubectl and YAML files