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Mastering Kubernetes

You're reading from   Mastering Kubernetes Dive into Kubernetes and learn how to create and operate world-class cloud-native systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611395
Length 746 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Kubernetes Architecture 2. Creating Kubernetes Clusters FREE CHAPTER 3. High Availability and Reliability 4. Securing Kubernetes 5. Using Kubernetes Resources in Practice 6. Managing Storage 7. Running Stateful Applications with Kubernetes 8. Deploying and Updating Applications 9. Packaging Applications 10. Exploring Kubernetes Networking 11. Running Kubernetes on Multiple Clusters 12. Serverless Computing on Kubernetes 13. Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters 14. Utilizing Service Meshes 15. Extending Kubernetes 16. Governing Kubernetes 17. Running Kubernetes in Production 18. The Future of Kubernetes 19. Other Books You May Enjoy
20. Index

What is a service mesh?

Service mesh is an architectural pattern for large-scale cloud-native applications that are composed of many microservices. When your application is structured as a collection of microservices, there is a lot going on in the boundary between microservices inside your Kubernetes cluster. This is different from traditional monolithic applications where most of the work is done by a single OS process.

Here are some concerns that are relevant to each microservice or interaction between microservices:

  • Advanced load balancing
  • Service discovery
  • Support for canary deployments
  • Caching
  • Tracing a request across multiple microservices
  • Authentication between services
  • Throttling the number of requests a service handles at a given time
  • Automatically retrying failed requests
  • Failing over to an alternative component when a component fails consistently
  • Collecting metrics

All these concerns are completely...

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