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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

Setting up OSBA

In this section, we will set up OSBA on our cluster. OSBA will allow us to create a MySQL database without leaving the Kubernetes cluster. We will start this section by explaining the benefits of using a hosted database versus running StatefulSets on Kubernetes itself.

The benefits of using a managed database service

All the examples that we have gone through so far have been self-contained, that is, everything ran inside the Kubernetes cluster. Almost any production application has state, which is generally stored in a database. While there is a great advantage to being mostly cloud-agnostic, this has a huge disadvantage when it comes to managing a stateful workload such as a database.

When you are running your own database on top of a Kubernetes cluster, you need to take care of scalability, security, high availability, disaster recovery, and backup. Managed database services offered by cloud providers can offload you or your team from having to execute these...

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