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Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide

By : Scott Surovich, Marc Boorshtein
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Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide

By: Scott Surovich, Marc Boorshtein

Overview of this book

Containerization has changed the DevOps game completely, with Docker and Kubernetes playing important roles in altering the flow of app creation and deployment. This book will help you acquire the knowledge and tools required to integrate Kubernetes clusters in an enterprise environment. The book begins by introducing you to Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals, including a review of basic Kubernetes objects. You’ll then get to grips with containerization and understand its core functionalities, including how to create ephemeral multinode clusters using kind. As you make progress, you’ll learn about cluster architecture, Kubernetes cluster deployment, and cluster management, and get started with application deployment. Moving on, you’ll find out how to integrate your container to a cloud platform and integrate tools including MetalLB, externalDNS, OpenID connect (OIDC), pod security policies (PSPs), Open Policy Agent (OPA), Falco, and Velero. Finally, you will discover how to deploy an entire platform to the cloud using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). By the end of this Kubernetes book, you will have learned how to create development clusters for testing applications and Kubernetes components, and be able to secure and audit a cluster by implementing various open-source solutions including OpenUnison, OPA, Falco, Kibana, and Velero.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Docker and Container Fundamentals
5
Section 2: Creating Kubernetes Development Clusters, Understanding objects, and Exposing Services
9
Section 3: Running Kubernetes in the Enterprise

What's a Role?

In Kubernetes, a Role is a way to tie together permissions into an object that can be described and configured. Roles have rules, which are a collection of resources and verbs. Working backward, we have the following:

  • Verbs: The actions that can be taken on an API, such as reading (get), writing (create, update, patch, and delete), or listing and watching.
  • Resources: Names of APIs to apply the verbs to, such as services, endpoints, and so on. Specific sub-resources may be listed as well. Specific resources can be named to provide very specific permissions on an object.

A Role does not say who can perform the verbs on the resources—that is handled by RoleBindings and ClusterRoleBindings. We will learn more about these in the RoleBindings and ClusterRoleBindings section.

Important Note

The term "role" can have multiple meanings, and RBAC is often used in other contexts. In the enterprise world, the term "role" is...