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Introduction to DevOps with Kubernetes

By : Onur Yılmaz, Süleyman Akba≈ü
Book Image

Introduction to DevOps with Kubernetes

By: Onur Yılmaz, Süleyman Akba≈ü

Overview of this book

Kubernetes and DevOps are the two pillars that can keep your business at the top by ensuring high performance of your IT infrastructure. Introduction to DevOps with Kubernetes will help you develop the skills you need to improve your DevOps with the power of Kubernetes. The book begins with an overview of Kubernetes primitives and DevOps concepts. You'll understand how Kubernetes can assist you with overcoming a wide range of real-world operation challenges. You will get to grips with creating and upgrading a cluster, and then learn how to deploy, update, and scale an application on Kubernetes. As you advance through the chapters, you’ll be able to monitor an application by setting up a pod failure alert on Prometheus. The book will also guide you in configuring Alertmanager to send alerts to the Slack channel and trace down a problem on the application using kubectl commands. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to manage the lifecycle of simple to complex applications on Kubernetes with confidence.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we first described conventional software development methods and discovered their boundaries. Precisely, we explained how conventional methods failed to encourage collaboration between development and operations, ultimately resulting in failures. Then, we discussed the motivation for the DevOps cultural shift.

We then progressed to introduce the DevOps toolchain in detail. Each stage of the toolchain was explained, firstly as a black box, and later, cloud-native modern implementations were discussed. We mentioned that each stage of the DevOps toolchain aims to increase collaboration and create a successful software project. Through the chain, a DevOps blog was planned, created, and released. At the end of the chapter, this DevOps blog was automated with a CI/CD pipeline within an activity.

The DevOps toolchain and DevOps practices discussed in this chapter will be revisited in later chapters to be implemented inside Kubernetes. In the next chapter, we will be describing the fundamentals of cloud-native technologies, microservices, and containers. These concepts are essential, since they are the building blocks of container orchestration and Kubernetes.