You're reading from The Kubernetes Bible The definitive guide to deploying and managing Kubernetes across major cloud platforms

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838827694

Length 680 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Nassim Kebbani

Piotr Tylenda

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introducing Kubernetes

2. Chapter 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Kubernetes Architecture – From Docker Images to Running Pods

4. Chapter 3: Installing Your First Kubernetes Cluster

5. Section 2: Diving into Kubernetes Core Concepts

6. Chapter 4: Running Your Docker Containers

7. Chapter 5: Using Multi-Container Pods and Design Patterns

8. Chapter 6: Configuring Your Pods Using ConfigMaps and Secrets

9. Chapter 7: Exposing Your Pods with Services

10. Chapter 8: Managing Namespaces in Kubernetes

11. Chapter 9: Persistent Storage in Kubernetes

12. Section 3: Using Managed Pods with Controllers

13. Chapter 10: Running Production-Grade Kubernetes Workloads

14. Chapter 11: Deployment – Deploying Stateless Applications

15. Chapter 12: StatefulSet – Deploying Stateful Applications

16. Chapter 13: DaemonSet – Maintaining Pod Singletons on Nodes

17. Section 4: Deploying Kubernetes on the Cloud

18. Chapter 14: Kubernetes Clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine

19. Chapter 15: Launching a Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Web Services with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

20. Chapter 16: Kubernetes Clusters on Microsoft Azure with Azure Kubernetes Service

21. Section 5: Advanced Kubernetes

22. Chapter 17: Working with Helm Charts

23. Chapter 18: Authentication and Authorization on Kubernetes

24. Chapter 19: Advanced Techniques for Scheduling Pods

25. Chapter 20: Autoscaling Kubernetes Pods and Nodes

26. Chapter 21: Advanced Traffic Routing with Ingress

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Why would you want to expose your Pods?

In the previous chapters, we discussed the microservice architecture, which offers to expose your functionality through REpresentational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs). These APIs rely completely on the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol, which means that your microservices must be accessible via the web, and thus via an Internet Protocol (IP) address on the network.

In this section, we will explain what Services are in Kubernetes. Next, we'll explain what they're used for and how they can help you expose your Pod-launched microservices.

Understanding Pod IP assignment

To understand what Services are, we need to talk about Pods for a moment once again. On Kubernetes, everything is Pod management: Pods host your applications, and they have a special property. Kubernetes assigns them a private IP address as soon as they are created on your cluster. Keep that in mind because it is super...