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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 14: Service Meshes and Serverless

This chapter discusses advanced Kubernetes patterns. First, it details the in-vogue service mesh pattern, where observability and service-to-service discovery are handled by a sidecar proxy, as well as a guide to setting up Istio, a popular service mesh. Lastly, it describes the serverless pattern and how it can be applied in Kubernetes. The major case study in this chapter will include setting up Istio for an example application and service discovery, along with Istio ingress gateways.

Let's start with a discussion of the sidecar proxy, which builds the foundation of service-to-service connectivity for service meshes.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Using sidecar proxies
  • Adding a service mesh to Kubernetes
  • Implementing serverless on Kubernetes