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Getting Started with Containerization

By : Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker, Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
Book Image

Getting Started with Containerization

By: Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker, Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration platform for managing containers in a cluster environment. This Learning Path introduces you to the world of containerization, in addition to providing you with an overview of Docker fundamentals. As you progress, you will be able to understand how Kubernetes works with containers. Starting with creating Kubernetes clusters and running applications with proper authentication and authorization, you'll learn how to create high-availability Kubernetes clusters on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and also learn how to use kubeconfig to manage different clusters. Whether it is learning about Docker containers and Docker Compose, or building a continuous delivery pipeline for your application, this Learning Path will equip you with all the right tools and techniques to get started with containerization. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have gained hands-on experience of working with Docker containers and orchestrators, including SwarmKit and Kubernetes. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition by Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, and Ke-Jou Carol Hsu • Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x by Gabriel N. Schenker
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using AWS as Kubernetes Cloud Provider


From Kubernetes 1.6, Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) was introduced, which defines a set of interfaces so that different cloud providers could evolve their own implementations out of the Kubernetes release cycle. Talking to the cloud providers, you can't ignore the biggest player: Amazon Web Service. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, in 2017, 63% of Kubernetes workloads run on AWS. AWS CloudProvider supports Service as Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) as StorageClass.

At the time this book was written, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) was under preview, which is a hosted Kubernetes service in AWS. Ideally, it'll have better integration with Kubernetes, such as Application Load Balancer (ALB) for Ingress, authorization, and networking. Currently in AWS, the limitation of routes per route tables in VPC is 50; it could be up to 100 as requested. However, network performance may...