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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

Using cloud-specific Kubernetes extensions

Usually available by default in managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google Cloud's GKE, cloud-specific Kubernetes extensions and controllers can integrate tightly with the cloud platform in question and make it easy to control other cloud resources from Kubernetes.

Even without adding any additional third-party components, a lot of this cloud-specific functionality is available in upstream Kubernetes via the cloud-controller-manager (CCM) component, which contains many options for integrating with the major cloud providers. This is the functionality that is usually enabled by default in the managed Kubernetes services on each public cloud – but they can be integrated with any cluster running on that specific cloud platform, managed or not.

In this section, we will review a few of the more common cloud extensions to Kubernetes, both in cloud-controller-manager (CCM) and functionality that requires...