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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

Introducing container orchestration

We cannot talk about Kubernetes without an introduction of its purpose. Kubernetes is a container orchestration framework, so let's review what that means in the context of this book.

What is container orchestration?

Container orchestration is a popular pattern for running modern applications both in the cloud and the data center. By using containers – preconfigured application units with bundled dependencies – as a base, developers can run many instances of an application in parallel.

Benefits of container orchestration

There are quite a few benefits that container orchestration offers, but we will highlight the main ones. First, it allows developers to easily build high-availability applications. By having multiple instances of an application running, a container orchestration system can be configured in a way that means it will automatically replace any failed instances of the application with new ones.

This...