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Kubernetes on AWS
Kubernetes on AWS

Kubernetes on AWS: Deploy and manage production-ready Kubernetes clusters on AWS

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Kubernetes on AWS

Start Your Engines

In this chapter, we will be taking our first steps with Kubernetes. You will learn how to start a cluster suitable for learning and development use on your own workstation, and will begin to learn how to use Kubernetes itself. In this chapter, we will do the following:

  • Learn how to install and use Minikube to run Kubernetes
  • Build a simple application that runs in a Docker container
  • Use Kubernetes to run simple applications

Your own Kubernetes

Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run a simple Kubernetes cluster on your workstation. It is very useful, as it allows you to test your applications and configurations locally and quickly iterate on your applications without needing access to a larger cluster. For our purposes, it is the ideal tool to get some practical hands-on experience with Kubernetes. It is very simple to install and configure, as you will discover.

Installation

You will need a few tools to get Kubernetes running on your workstation:

  • kubectl is the Kubernetes command-line interface. Throughout this book, you will be using it to interact with Kubernetes.
In the Kubernetes community, no one agrees how to pronounce kubectl.

Try...

Building and launching a simple application on Minikube

Let's take our first steps to building a simple application on our local minikube cluster and getting it to run.

The first thing we need to do is build a container image for our application. The simplest way to do this is to create a Dockerfile and use the docker build command.

Use your favorite text editor to create a file called Dockerfile with the following content:

Dockerfile 
FROM nginx:alpine 
RUN echo "<h1>Hello World</h1>" > /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html 

To build the application, first ensure your Docker client is pointing to the Docker instance inside the Minikube VM by running:

    eval $(minikube docker-env)

Then use Docker to build the image. In this case, we are tagging the image hello, but you could use any tag you wanted:

    docker build -t hello:v1 .

Kubectl has a run command...

Summary

Well done for making it this far. If you have followed along with the examples in this chapter, you should be well on your way to learning how to use Kubernetes to manage your own applications. You should be able to do the following:

  • Use Minikube to set up a single node Kubernetes cluster on your workstation
  • Build a simple application container using Docker
  • Run a pod on your Minikube cluster
  • Declare a Kubernetes configuration using a Manifest file, so you can reproduce your setup
  • Set up a service so you can access your application
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Key benefits

  • Leverage the power of Kubernetes on AWS to deploy highly scalable applications
  • Provision Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EC2 environments
  • Implement best practices to improve efficiency and security of Kubernetes on the cloud

Description

Docker containers promise to radicalize the way developers and operations build, deploy, and manage applications running on the cloud. Kubernetes provides the orchestration tools you need to realize that promise in production. Kubernetes on AWS guides you in deploying a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on the AWS platform. You will then discover how to utilize the power of Kubernetes, which is one of the fastest growing platforms for production-based container orchestration, to manage and update your applications. Kubernetes is becoming the go-to choice for production-grade deployments of cloud-native applications. This book covers Kubernetes from first principles. You will start by learning about Kubernetes' powerful abstractions - Pods and Services - that make managing container deployments easy. This will be followed by a guided tour through setting up a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on AWS, while learning the techniques you need to successfully deploy and manage your own applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained plenty of hands-on experience with Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services. You will also have picked up some tips on deploying and managing applications, keeping your cluster and applications secure, and ensuring that your whole system is reliable and resilient to failure.

Who is this book for?

If you’re a cloud engineer, cloud solution provider, sysadmin, site reliability engineer, or developer with an interest in DevOps and are looking for an extensive guide to running Kubernetes in the AWS environment, this book is for you. Though any previous knowledge of Kubernetes is not expected, some experience with Linux and Docker containers would be a bonus.

What you will learn

  • Learn how to provision a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on AWS
  • Deploy your own applications to Kubernetes with Helm
  • Discover strategies for troubleshooting your cluster and know where to find help with issues
  • Explore the best ways to monitor your cluster and the applications running on it
  • Supercharge your cluster by integrating it with the tools provided by the AWS platform
  • Architect your cluster for high availability

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Table of Contents

11 Chapters
Google's Infrastructure for the Rest of Us Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Start Your Engines Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Reach for the Cloud Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Change in Your Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Complex Applications with Helm Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Planning for Production Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Production-Ready Cluster Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Sorry My App Ate the Cluster Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Storing State Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Container Images Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This book is from 2018 and really doesn't even cover the AWS implementations of Kubernetes (EKS / ECS). This book topically covers Kubernetes but does not do so in any way better than books or 'bibles' on K8S. Buyer beware and read the Table of Contents before purchasing this book. It really should be titled Kubernetes with ITIL operations. Very little coverage of EKS in this book.
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Martin B. Mar 23, 2021
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This is supposed to be covering concepts of Kubernetes on the AWS Cloud however instead of using AWS EKS it's setting up EC2 instances to run the environment, being that the book was published in Nov 2018 when EKS publicly launched in July 2018 and was announced at re:Invent 2017 it's a joke that Packt published this and more so that it is still being sold.
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Nick from Chicago Aug 27, 2020
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Starting with chapter 2, the exercises do not work, presumably they worked when the book was printed, but in a year in a half a lot has changed.Giving up on chapter 2 I went on to chapter 3, where the problems continued. Rather than using a cloudformation template, the author has you type dozens of long commands, he has them so you can't see the output, so its hard to tell if they worked or not, when I got to the launch bastion, I see many of the variables were not set, and the VPC and subnets were not created.Additionally the github repo does not have any of this code, and it does not appear to have been updated since the book was printed.Furthermore, 2 of the chapters are not in the book and it directs you to a PDF.
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