You're reading from Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide Effectively containerize applications, integrate enterprise systems, and scale applications in your enterprise

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839213403

Length 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Marc Boorshtein

Scott Surovich

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Docker and Container Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Docker and Container Essentials FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Working with Docker Data

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Docker Networking

5. Section 2: Creating Kubernetes Development Clusters, Understanding objects, and Exposing Services

6. Chapter 4: Deploying Kubernetes Using KinD

7. Chapter 5: Kubernetes Bootcamp

8. Chapter 6: Services, Load Balancing, and External DNS

9. Section 3: Running Kubernetes in the Enterprise

10. Chapter 7: Integrating Authentication into Your Cluster

11. Chapter 8: RBAC Policies and Auditing

12. Chapter 9: Deploying a Secured Kubernetes Dashboard

13. Chapter 10: Creating PodSecurityPolicies

14. Chapter 11: Extending Security Using Open Policy Agent

15. Chapter 12: Auditing using Falco and EFK

16. Chapter 13: Backing Up Workloads

17. Chapter 14: Provisioning a Platform

18. Assessments

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Introducing Kubernetes objects

This section will contain a lot of information and, since this is a bootcamp, we will not go into deep details on each object. As you can imagine, each object could have its own chapter, or multiple chapters, in a book. Since there are many books on Kubernetes that go into detail on the base objects, we will only cover the required details of each to have an understanding of each one. In the following chapters, we will include additional details for objects as we build out our cluster using the book exercises.

Before we go on to understand what Kubernetes objects really are, let's first explain Kubernetes manifests.

Kubernetes manifests

The files that we will use to create Kubernetes objects are referred to as manifests. A manifest can be created using YAML or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)—most manifests use YAML, and that is the format we will use throughout the book.

The content of a manifest will vary depending on the object...