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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 2 – Setting Up Your Kubernetes Cluster

  1. Minikube makes it easy to set up a local Kubernetes cluster for development.
  2. In some cases, there may be a fixed minimum cost for the cluster that is larger than a self-provisioned cluster. Some managed options also have license costs in addition to the cost of compute.
  3. Kubeadm is agnostic to infrastructure providers, while Kops supports only several major providers with deeper integration and compute provisioning.
  4. As of the writing of this book, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean, VMware, and OpenStack, in various levels of production readiness.
  5. Typically, the cluster components are defined in the systemd service definitions, which allows the automatic restart of services if a node shuts down and restarts at the OS level.