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The Kubernetes Book

By : Nigel Poulton, Pushkar Joglekar
Book Image

The Kubernetes Book

By: Nigel Poulton, Pushkar Joglekar

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is the leading orchestrator of cloud-native apps. With knowledge of how to work with Kubernetes, you can easily deploy and manage applications on the cloud or in your on-premises data center. The book begins by introducing you to Kubernetes and showing you how to install it. You’ll learn how to use Kubernetes Services and bring stable and reliable networking to apps that are deployed on Kubernetes. You'll delve deep into the powerful storage subsystem of Kubernetes and learn how to leverage the variety of external storage backends in your applications. As the book progresses, it shows you how to use features such as DaemonSets, Helm, and RBAC to enhance your Kubernetes applications. You'll explore the six categories of identifying vulnerabilities and look at a few ways to prevent and mitigate them. You'll also look at ways to secure the software delivery pipeline by discussing some image-related best practices. The book ends by sharing with you some resources that’ll help take your Kubernetes knowledge to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll have the confidence and skills to leverage all the features of Kubernetes to develop scalable applications.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11

Practice Makes Perfect

I know I'm being Captain Obvious with this one, but there's no substitute for hands-on. Fortunately, it's never been easier to spin-up a Kubernetes playground where you can play around until you're a world authority!

I'm a huge fan of Play with Kubernetes (https://labs.play-with-k8s.com/). I love Docker Desktop, and I spin up test clusters on Google's GKE all the time.

Other options exist, and all of them are a lot simpler than how things used to be. I remember studying for my MSCE in Windows NT, and spending countless hours rebuilding NT domains from CD installs every time I trashed my lab. Things are so much simpler these days, and there really is no excuse for not getting our hands dirty.