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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

Creating a cluster with Kops

Since Kops will provision infrastructure for you, there is no need to pre-create any nodes. All you need to do is install Kops, ensure your cloud platform credentials are working, and create your cluster all at once. Kops can be installed on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

For this tutorial, we will go through creating a cluster on AWS, but you can find instructions for other supported Kops platforms in the Kops documentation at https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/tree/master/docs.

Installing on macOS

On OS X, the easiest way to install Kops is using Homebrew:

brew update && brew install kops

Alternatively, you can grab the newest stable Kops binary from the Kops GitHub page at https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/tag/1.12.3.

Installing on Linux

On Linux, you can install Kops via the following command:

Kops-linux-install.sh

curl -LO https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com...