Summary

In this chapter, we learned the basic concepts needed to understand containers, container orchestrators, and the ways you can provision and manage container-based infrastructure using both Kubernetes native tooling via kubectl and Helm and the corresponding Terraform providers for both Kubernetes and Helm.

This is the end of the cross-platform, cloud-agnostic knowledge that we need to build both VM- and container-based architectures across all three hyperscalars. Since serverless is inherently platform-specific and offers significant abstraction from the underlying infrastructure, I will cover each hyperscalar’s offering in its respective chapter.

In the next chapter, we will move beyond cloud architecture paradigms and spend some time understanding how teams deliver IAC solutions using CI/CD pipelines that fuse the infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment processes into a cohesive, end-to-end workflow.