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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 a big one, but you should now have a good understanding of what pods are and how to use them, especially when it comes to managing multiple Docker containers in the same Pod. Since microservice applications are often made up of several containers and not just one, it's going to be difficult to manage only a single-container Pod in your cluster.

I recommend that you focus on mastering the declarative way of creating Kubernetes resources. As you have noticed in this chapter, the key to achieving the most complex things with Kubernetes resides in writing YAML files. One example is that you simply cannot create a multi-container Pod without writing YAML files.

This chapter completes the previous one: Chapter 4, Running Your Docker Containers. You need to understand that everything we will do with Kubernetes will be Pod management because everything in Kubernetes revolves around them. Keep in mind that containers are never created directly, but...