From building your own cluster to running cloud-native applications with Kubernetes, this workshop covers it all using engaging examples and activities
Key Features
- Explore the Kubernetes environment and understand how containers are managed
- Learn how to build, maintain, and deploy cloud-native applications using Kubernetes
- Get to grips with using Kubernetes primitives to manage the life cycle of a full application stack
Book Description
Thanks to its extensive support for managing hundreds of containers that run cloud-native applications, Kubernetes is the most popular open source container orchestration platform that makes cluster management easy. This workshop adopts a practical approach to get you acquainted with the Kubernetes environment and its applications.
Starting with an introduction to the fundamentals of Kubernetes, you’ll install and set up your Kubernetes environment. You’ll understand how to write YAML files and deploy your first simple web application container using Pod. You’ll then assign human-friendly names to Pods, explore various Kubernetes entities and functions, and discover when to use them. As you work through the chapters, this Kubernetes book will show you how you can make full-scale use of Kubernetes by applying a variety of techniques for designing components and deploying clusters. You’ll also get to grips with security policies for limiting access to certain functions inside the cluster. Toward the end of the book, you’ll get a rundown of Kubernetes advanced features for building your own controller and upgrading to a Kubernetes cluster without downtime.
By the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to manage containers and run cloud-based applications efficiently using Kubernetes.
What you will learn
- Get to grips with the fundamentals of Kubernetes and its terminology
- Share or store data in different containers running in the same pod
- Create a container image from an image definition manifest
- Construct a Kubernetes-aware continuous integration (CI) pipeline for deployments
- Attract traffic to your app using Kubernetes ingress
- Build and deploy your own admission controller
Who this book is for
Whether you are new to the world of web programming or are an experienced developer or software engineer looking to use Kubernetes for managing and scaling containerized applications, you’ll find this workshop useful. A basic understanding of Docker and containerization is necessary to make the most of this book.
Zachary Arnold works as a software engineer at Ygrene Energy Fund. Zach has an experience of over 10 years in modern web development. He is an active contributor to the Open Source Kubernetes project in both SIG-Release and SIG-Docs currently focusing on security. He has been running clusters in production since Kubernetes 1.7 and has spoken at the previous 4 KubeCons. His passion areas in the project center on building highly stable Kubernetes cluster components and running workloads securely inside of Kubernetes.
Sahil Dua is a software engineer. He started using Kubernetes to run machine learning workloads. Currently, he's running various types of applications on Kubernetes. He shared his learnings as a keynote session at KubeCon Europe 2018. He's a passionate open source contributor and has contributed to some famous projects such as Git, pandas, hound, go-GitHub, and so on. He's been an open source community leader for over 2 years at DuckDuckGo.
Wei Huang works as a senior software engineer at IBM. He has over 10 years' experience working on databases, data warehouse tooling, cloud, container, monitoring, and DevOps. He started to use Kubernetes since 1.3, including extending Kubernetes LoadBalancer using CRD, networking, scheduling, and monitoring. Now he is a core maintainer of Kubernetes SIG-Scheduling.
