You're reading from Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure, Third Edition Use Azure Kubernetes Service to automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079945

Length 528 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Gunther Lenz

Nills Franssens

Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure – Third Edition

Foreword

Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER

1. Introduction to containers and Kubernetes

2. Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service

Section 2: Deploying on AKS

3. Application deployment on AKS

4. Building scalable applications

5. Handling common failures in AKS

6. Securing your application with HTTPS

7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application

Section 3: Securing your AKS cluster and workloads

8. Role-based access control in AKS

9. Azure Active Directory pod‑managed identities in AKS

10. Storing secrets in AKS

11. Network security in AKS

Section 4: Integrating with Azure managed services

12. Connecting an application to an Azure database

13. Azure Security Center for Kubernetes

14. Serverless functions

15. Continuous integration and continuous deployment for AKS

Index

The software evolution that brought us here

There are two major software development evolutions that enabled the popularity of containers and Kubernetes. One is the adoption of a microservices architectural style. Microservices allow an application to be built from a collection of small services that each serve a specific function. The other evolution that enabled containers and Kubernetes is DevOps. DevOps is a set of cultural practices that allows people, processes, and tools to build and release software faster, more frequently, and more reliably.

Although you can use both containers and Kubernetes without using either microservices or DevOps, the technologies are most widely adopted for deploying microservices using DevOps methodologies.

In this section, we'll discuss both evolutions, starting with microservices.