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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 Google Kubernetes Engine

Kubernetes was designed by google and widely used internally at Google for years. Google Cloud Platform offers the hosted GKE. With GKE, we don't need to build a cluster from scratch. Instead, clusters can be launched and turned down on demand.

Getting ready

We can use the Kubernetes Engine dashboard in the GCP console or the gcloud CLI to launched and configure a cluster. Using the console is very straightforward and intuitive. However, using CLI is a more flexible way to make the operation repeatable or to integrate it with your existing pipeline. In this recipe, we'll walk through how to use gcloud to launch and set up a Kubernetes cluster, along with some importants concept...