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Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

You're reading from   Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes Build, deploy, and manage scalable microservices on Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789805468
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Kubernetes for Developers FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Microservices 3. Delinkcious - the Sample Application 4. Setting Up the CI/CD Pipeline 5. Configuring Microservices with Kubernetes 6. Securing Microservices on Kubernetes 7. Talking to the World - APIs and Load Balancers 8. Working with Stateful Services 9. Running Serverless Tasks on Kubernetes 10. Testing Microservices 11. Deploying Microservices 12. Monitoring, Logging, and Metrics 13. Service Mesh - Working with Istio 14. The Future of Microservices and Kubernetes 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding ingress and load balancing

The ingress concept in Kubernetes is about controlling access to your services and potentially providing additional features, such as the following:

  • SSL termination
  • Authentication
  • Routing to multiple services

There is an ingress resource that defines routing rules for other relevant information, and there is also an ingress controller that reads all the ingress resources defined in the cluster (across all namespaces). The ingress resource receives all the requests and routes to the target services that distribute them to the backing pods. The ingress controller serves as a cluster-wide software load balancer and router. Often, there will be a hardware load balancer that sits in front of the cluster and sends all traffic to the ingress controller.

Let's go ahead and put all of these concepts together and expose Delinkcious to the...

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