You're reading from Cloud Native with Kubernetes Deploy, configure, and run modern cloud native applications on Kubernetes

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838823078

Length 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Jenkins

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Alexander Raul

View More author details

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Setting Up Kubernetes

2. Chapter 1: Communicating with Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Kubernetes Cluster

4. Chapter 3: Running Application Containers on Kubernetes

5. Section 2: Configuring and Deploying Applications on Kubernetes

6. Chapter 4: Scaling and Deploying Your Application

7. Chapter 5: Services and Ingress – Communicating with the Outside World

8. Chapter 6: Kubernetes Application Configuration

9. Chapter 7: Storage on Kubernetes

10. Chapter 8: Pod Placement Controls

11. Section 3: Running Kubernetes in Production

12. Chapter 9: Observability on Kubernetes

13. Chapter 10: Troubleshooting Kubernetes

14. Chapter 11: Template Code Generation and CI/CD on Kubernetes

15. Chapter 12: Kubernetes Security and Compliance

16. Section 4: Extending Kubernetes

17. Chapter 13: Extending Kubernetes with CRDs

18. Chapter 14: Service Meshes and Serverless

19. Chapter 15: Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes

20. Assessments

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Leave a review - let other readers know what you think

Deploying object storage on Kubernetes

Object storage is different from filesystem or block storage. It presents a higher-level abstraction that encapsulates a file, gives it an identifier, and often includes versioning. The file can then be accessed via its specific identifier.

The most popular object storage service is probably AWS S3, but Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage are similar alternatives. In addition, there are several self-hosted object storage technologies that can be run on Kubernetes, which we reviewed in the previous section.

For this book, we will review the configuration and usage of Minio on Kubernetes. Minio is an object storage engine that emphasizes high performance and can be deployed on Kubernetes, in addition to other orchestration technologies such as Docker Swarm and Docker Compose.

Minio supports Kubernetes deployments using both an operator and a Helm chart. In this book, we will focus on the operator, but for more information on the...