Production Considerations for Running Kubernetes

You have arrived at the last chapter of this book— well done! In this short chapter, we will provide you with various best practices and recommendations for running Kubernetes in production. There are always two worlds for every software engineering approach or tool—how you use it for development and how you use it in production. For Kubernetes, running in production requires more operations overheads as you want to run your workloads with high availability and reliability, often at a large scale. You have to consider how you are performing upgrades to the cluster itself and how you patch the underlying operating system, ensuring the continuity of your business. If you are running Kubernetes in an isolated network in your enterprise data center, you may need to wire in network proxy configuration in all components...