Summary

Overall, containerized application deployment, troubleshooting, and third-party tooling are going to be the core pieces of what your Kubernetes cluster looks like. Without proper troubleshooting, you won’t have successful deployments. Without third-party tooling such as Ingress controllers, you won’t be able to properly manage frontend apps. Out of the box, Kubernetes gives you a ton to use to make things work. However, there are more steps you need to take. For better or for worse, Kubernetes isn’t one of those platforms where you can just deploy it and walk away. It takes management and engineering skills to ensure it’s working as expected.

In the next chapter, you’ll learn about how to monitor the workloads you’ve been deploying throughout this book.