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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 completely from scratch

Creating a Kubernetes cluster entirely from scratch is a multi-step endeavor that could likely span multiple chapters of this book. However, since our purpose is to get you up and running with Kubernetes as quickly as possible, we will refrain from describing the entire process.

If you are interested in creating a cluster from scratch, either for educational reasons or a need to finely customize your cluster, a great guide is Kubernetes The Hard Way, which is a full cluster creation tutorial written by Kelsey Hightower. It can be found at https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we can proceed with an overview of the manual cluster creation process.

Provisioning your nodes

First things first – you'll need some infrastructure to run Kubernetes on. Generally, VMs are a good candidate for this, though Kubernetes can be run on bare metal as well. If you...