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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about security in the context of Kubernetes. First, we reviewed the basics of security on Kubernetes – which layers of the security stack are relevant to our cluster and some broad strokes of how to manage that complexity. Next, we learned about some of the major security issues that Kubernetes has encountered, as well as discussing the results of the 2019 security audit.

Then, we implemented security at two different levels of the stack in Kubernetes – first, in configuration with Pod security policies and network policies, and finally, runtime security with Falco.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to make Kubernetes your own by building custom resources. This will allow you to add significant new functionality to your cluster.