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The Kubernetes Bible

By : Nassim Kebbani, Piotr Tylenda, Russ McKendrick
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Book Image

The Kubernetes Bible

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By: Nassim Kebbani, Piotr Tylenda, Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

With its broad adoption across various industries, Kubernetes is helping engineers with the orchestration and automation of container deployments on a large scale, making it the leading container orchestration system and the most popular choice for running containerized applications. This Kubernetes book starts with an introduction to Kubernetes and containerization, covering the setup of your local development environment and the roles of the most important Kubernetes components. Along with covering the core concepts necessary to make the most of your infrastructure, this book will also help you get acquainted with the fundamentals of Kubernetes. As you advance, you'll learn how to manage Kubernetes clusters on cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and develop and deploy real-world applications in Kubernetes using practical examples. Additionally, you'll get to grips with managing microservices along with best practices. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with battle-tested knowledge of advanced Kubernetes topics, such as scheduling of Pods and managing incoming traffic to the cluster, and be ready to work with Kubernetes on cloud platforms.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introducing Kubernetes
5
Section 2: Diving into Kubernetes Core Concepts
12
Section 3: Using Managed Pods with Controllers
17
Section 4: Deploying Kubernetes on the Cloud
21
Section 5: Advanced Kubernetes

Summary

This chapter was quite intense! You require a Kubernetes cluster to follow this book, and so, we examined five ways in which to set up Kubernetes clusters on different platforms. You learned about Minikube, which is the most common way to set up a cluster on a local machine. You also discovered Kind, which is a tool that can set up multi-node local clusters, which is a limitation of Minikube. Then, we looked at the three major Kubernetes cloud services, which are Google GKE, Amazon EKS, and Azure AKS. These three services allow you to create a Kubernetes cluster on the cloud for your practice and train with. This was just a quick introduction to these services, and we will have the opportunity to dive deeper into these services later. For the moment, simply pick the solution that is the best for you. Personally, I use both Kind and Amazon EKS, as they are my preferred tools.

In the next chapter, we are going to dive into Kubernetes by exploring the concept of Pods. The Pod...