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The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit

You're reading from   The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit Kubernetes: Deploying and managing highly-available and fault-tolerant applications at scale

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135503
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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Preface 1. How Did We Get Here? FREE CHAPTER 2. Running Kubernetes Cluster Locally 3. Creating Pods 4. Scaling Pods With ReplicaSets 5. Using Services to Enable Communication between Pods 6. Deploying Releases with Zero-Downtime 7. Using Ingress to Forward Traffic 8. Using Volumes to Access Host's File System 9. Using ConfigMaps to Inject Configuration Files 10. Using Secrets to Hide Confidential Information 11. Dividing a Cluster into Namespaces 12. Securing Kubernetes Clusters 13. Managing Resources 14. Creating a Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster 15. Persisting State 16. The End 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Accessing host's resources through hostPath volumes

Sooner or later, we'll have to build our images. A simple solution would be to execute the docker image build command directly from a server. However, that might cause problems. Building images on a single host means that there is an uneven resource utilization and that there is a single point of failure. Wouldn't it be better if we could build images anywhere inside a Kubernetes cluster?

Instead of executing the docker image build command, we could create a Pod based on the docker image. Kubernetes will make sure that the Pod is scheduled somewhere inside the cluster, thus distributing resource usage much better.

Let's start with an elementary example. If we can list the images, we'll prove that running docker commands inside containers works. Since, from Kubernetes' point of view, Pods are the...

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