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Mastering Kubernetes

You're reading from   Mastering Kubernetes Large scale container deployment and management

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461001
Length 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
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Preface 1. Understanding Kubernetes Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Kubernetes Clusters 3. Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting 4. High Availability and Reliability 5. Configuring Kubernetes Security, Limits, and Accounts 6. Using Critical Kubernetes Resources 7. Handling Kubernetes Storage 8. Running Stateful Applications with Kubernetes 9. Rolling Updates, Scalability, and Quotas 10. Advanced Kubernetes Networking 11. Running Kubernetes on Multiple Clouds and Cluster Federation 12. Customizing Kubernetes - API and Plugins 13. Handling the Kubernetes Package Manager 14. The Future of Kubernetes Index

Working with the Kubernetes API

The Kubernetes API is comprehensive and encompasses the entire functionality of Kubernetes. As you may expect, it is huge. But it is designed very well using best practices, and it is consistent. If you understand the basic principles, you can discover everything you need to know.

Understanding OpenAPI

OpenAPI allows API providers to define their operations and models, and enables developers to automate their tools and generate their favorite language's client to talk to that API server. Kubernetes has supported Swagger 1.2 (an older version of the OpenAPI spec) for a while, but the spec was incomplete and invalid, making it hard to generate tools/clients based on it.

In Kubernetes 1.4, alpha support was added for the OpenAPI spec (formerly known as Swagger 2.0 before it was donated to the OpenAPI Initiative) by upgrading the current models and operations. In Kubernetes 1.5, support for the OpenAPI spec has been completed by auto-generating the spec directly...

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