You're reading from Kubernetes in Production Best Practices Build and manage highly available production-ready Kubernetes clusters

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800202450

Length 292 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (2):

Aly Saleh

Murat Karslioglu

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Kubernetes Infrastructure and Production-Readiness

2. Chapter 2: Architecting Production-Grade Kubernetes Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Provisioning Kubernetes Clusters Using AWS and Terraform

4. Chapter 4: Managing Cluster Configuration with Ansible

5. Chapter 5: Configuring and Enhancing Kubernetes Networking Services

6. Chapter 6: Securing Kubernetes Effectively

7. Chapter 7: Managing Storage and Stateful Applications

8. Chapter 8: Deploying Seamless and Reliable Applications

9. Chapter 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability

10. Chapter 10: Operating and Maintaining Efficient Kubernetes Clusters

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