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Kubernetes on AWS

By : Ed Robinson
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Kubernetes on AWS

By: Ed Robinson

Overview of this book

Docker containers promise to radicalize the way developers and operations build, deploy, and manage applications running on the cloud. Kubernetes provides the orchestration tools you need to realize that promise in production. Kubernetes on AWS guides you in deploying a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on the AWS platform. You will then discover how to utilize the power of Kubernetes, which is one of the fastest growing platforms for production-based container orchestration, to manage and update your applications. Kubernetes is becoming the go-to choice for production-grade deployments of cloud-native applications. This book covers Kubernetes from first principles. You will start by learning about Kubernetes' powerful abstractions - Pods and Services - that make managing container deployments easy. This will be followed by a guided tour through setting up a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on AWS, while learning the techniques you need to successfully deploy and manage your own applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained plenty of hands-on experience with Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services. You will also have picked up some tips on deploying and managing applications, keeping your cluster and applications secure, and ensuring that your whole system is reliable and resilient to failure.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

A Production-Ready Cluster

In the last chapter, we spent some time thinking about a framework for planning a Kubernetes cluster. Hopefully, it should be clear to you that, when building a cluster, there are lots of decisions to make based on the requirements of the systems you are running.

In this chapter, we will take a much more practical approach to this problem. Instead of trying to cover the myriad options available to us, I will start by making some choices, and then we will build a fully functional cluster that will serve as a base configuration to build upon for many different use cases.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Terraform
  • Preparing node images and a node group
  • Provisioning add-ons