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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

Programmatic cluster creation tools

There are several tools available that will bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster in various non-managed environments. We'll focus on three of the most popular: Kubeadm, Kops, and Kubespray. Each tool is aimed at a different use case and generally works by a different method.

Kubeadm

Kubeadm is a tool created by the Kubernetes community to simplify cluster creation on infrastructure that is already provisioned. Unlike Kops, Kubeadm does not have the ability to provision infrastructure on cloud services. It simply creates a best-practices cluster that will pass Kubernetes conformance tests. Kubeadm is agnostic to infrastructure – it should work anywhere you can run Linux VMs.

Kops

Kops is a popular cluster provisioning tool. It provisions the underlying infrastructure for your cluster, installs all cluster components, and validates the functionality of your cluster. It can also be used to perform various cluster operations such as...