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DevOps with Kubernetes - Second Edition

By : Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Cheng-Yang Wu
Book Image

DevOps with Kubernetes - Second Edition

By: Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Cheng-Yang Wu

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has been widely adopted across public clouds and on-premise data centers. As we're living in an era of microservices, knowing how to use and manage Kubernetes is an essential skill for everyone in the IT industry. This book is a guide to everything you need to know about Kubernetes—from simply deploying a container to administrating Kubernetes clusters wisely. You'll learn about DevOps fundamentals, as well as deploying a monolithic application as microservices and using Kubernetes to orchestrate them. You will then gain an insight into the Kubernetes network, extensions, authentication and authorization. With the DevOps spirit in mind, you'll learn how to allocate resources to your application and prepare to scale them efficiently. Knowing the status and activity of the application and clusters is crucial, so we’ll learn about monitoring and logging in Kubernetes. Having an improved ability to observe your services means that you will be able to build a continuous delivery pipeline with confidence. At the end of the book, you'll learn how to run managed Kubernetes services on three top cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about what namespace and context are, including how they work, and a how to switch between a physical cluster and virtual cluster by setting the context. We then learned about an important object—service account, which provides the ability to identify processes that are running within a pod. Then, we familiarized ourselves with how to control access flow in Kubernetes. We learned what the difference is between authentication and authorization, and how these work in Kubernetes. We also learned how to leverage RBAC to have fine-grained permission for users. In addition, we looked at a couple of admission controller plugins and dynamic admission controls, which are the last goalkeepers in the access control flow. Finally, we learned about what the CRD is and implemented it and its controller via the operator SDK (https://github.com/operator...