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Mastering Kubernetes

You're reading from   Mastering Kubernetes Level up your container orchestration skills with Kubernetes to build, run, secure, and observe large-scale distributed apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839211256
Length 642 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Kubernetes Architecture 2. Creating Kubernetes Clusters FREE CHAPTER 3. High Availability and Reliability 4. Securing Kubernetes 5. Using Kubernetes Resources in Practice 6. Managing Storage 7. Running Stateful Applications with Kubernetes 8. Deploying and Updating Applications 9. Packaging Applications 10. Exploring Advanced Networking 11. Running Kubernetes on Multiple Clouds and Cluster Federation 12. Serverless Computing on Kubernetes 13. Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters 14. Utilizing Service Meshes 15. Extending Kubernetes 16. The Future of Kubernetes 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Understanding serverless computing

OK. Let's get it out of the way. The servers are still there. The term "serverless" means that you don't have to provision, configure, and manage the servers yourself. Public cloud platforms were a real paradigm shift by eliminating the need for dealing with physical hardware, data centers, and networking. But, even on the cloud it takes a lot of work and knowhow to create and provision machine images, provision instances, configure them, upgrade and patch operating systems, define network policies, and manage certificates and access control. With serverless computing, large chunks of this important but tedious work go away.

The allure of serverless is multi-pronged:

  • A whole category of problems dealing with provisioning goes away
  • Capacity planning is a non-issue
  • You pay only for what you use

You lose some control because you have to live with the choices made by the cloud provider. But, there...

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