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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

Integrating with the ecosystem

The Kubernetes (and more generally, cloud-native) ecosystem is massive, consisting of hundreds of popular open source software libraries, and thousands more fledgling ones. This can be tough to navigate since every month brings new technologies to vet, and acquisitions, rollups, and companies going out of business can turn your favorite open source library into an unmaintained mess.

Thankfully, there is some structure in this ecosystem, and it's worth knowing about it in order to help navigate the dearth of options in cloud-native open source. The first big structural component of this is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation or CNCF.

Introducing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

The CNCF is a sub-foundation of the Linux Foundation, which is a non-profit entity that hosts open source projects and coordinates an ever-changing list of companies that contribute to and use open source software.

The CNCF was founded almost entirely to...