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Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
Book Image

Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration platform to manage containers in a cluster environment. With Kubernetes, you can configure and deploy containerized applications easily. This book gives you a quick brush up on how Kubernetes works with containers, and an overview of main Kubernetes concepts, such as Pods, Deployments, Services and etc. This book explains how to create Kubernetes clusters and run applications with proper authentication and authorization configurations. With real-world recipes, you'll learn how to create high availability Kubernetes clusters on AWS, GCP and in on-premise datacenters with proper logging and monitoring setup. You'll also learn some useful tips about how to build a continuous delivery pipeline for your application. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to use Kubernetes in production and will have a better understanding of how to manage containers using Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Working with configuration files

Kubernetes supports two different file formats, YAML and JSON. Each format can describe the same function of Kubernetes.

Getting ready

Before we study how to write a Kubernetes configuration file, learning how to write a correct template format is important. We can learn the standard format of both YAML and JSON from their official websites.

YAML

The YAML format is very simple, with few syntax rules; therefore, it is easy to read and write, even for users. To know more about YAML, you can refer to the following website link: http://www...