Summary

In this chapter, we demonstrated several commonly used, advanced features of Kubernetes. First, you learned what the purpose of namespaces in Kubernetes is and how to manage them. Then, we introduced readiness, liveness, and startup probes, which are used for monitoring the life cycle of Pod containers—and we provided you with a set of recommended practices when working with probes and how to avoid common pitfalls. The next step was learning how to specify Pod resource requests and limits and how to combine this with autoscaling using the HPA. To inject configuration data (including sensitive passwords) into our application, we used ConfigMaps and Secrets. On top of that, we have demonstrated how to use PersistentVolumes (backed by the azureDisk Volume plugin) in StatefulSets running on Windows nodes. And lastly, you learned how to approach rolling updates for Deployment...