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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure

You're reading from   Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure Automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209671
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nills Franssens Nills Franssens
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Gunther Lenz Gunther Lenz
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Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface Section 1: The Basics
1. Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER 2. Kubernetes on Azure (AKS) 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 and Azure AD 7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application Section 3: Leveraging advanced Azure PaaS services
8. Connecting an app to an Azure database 9. Connecting to Azure Event Hubs 10. Securing your AKS cluster 11. Serverless functions Index

5. Handling common failures in AKS

Kubernetes is a distributed system with many working parts. AKS abstracts most of it for you, but it is still your responsibility to know where to look and how to respond when bad things happen. Much of the failure handling is done automatically by Kubernetes; however, you will encounter situations where manual intervention is required.

There are two areas where things can go wrong in an application that is deployed on top of AKS. Either the cluster itself has issues, or the application deployed on top of the cluster has issues. This chapter focuses specifically on cluster issues. There are several things that can go wrong with a cluster.

The first thing that can go wrong is a node in the cluster can become unavailable. This can happen either due to an Azure infrastructure outage or due to an issue with the virtual machine itself, such as an operating system crash. Either way, Kubernetes monitors the cluster for node failures and will...

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