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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)

Playing with Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com) is the most popular public cloud service. It provides the online service for Virtual Server (EC2), Software Defined Network (VPC), Object Store (S3), and so on. It is a suitable infrastructure to set up a Kubernetes cluster. We will explore AWS to understand the fundamental function of AWS.

Getting ready

First of all, you need to sign up to AWS. AWS gives a free tier that allows you to use some amount of AWS resources, free for 12 months. Go to https://aws.amazon.com/free/ to register your information and credit card. It may take 24 hours to verify and activate your account.

Once your AWS account is activated, we need to create one Identity and Access...