You're reading from The Kubernetes Bible The definitive guide to deploying and managing Kubernetes across major cloud platforms

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838827694

Length 680 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Nassim Kebbani

Piotr Tylenda

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introducing Kubernetes

2. Chapter 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Kubernetes Architecture – From Docker Images to Running Pods

4. Chapter 3: Installing Your First Kubernetes Cluster

5. Section 2: Diving into Kubernetes Core Concepts

6. Chapter 4: Running Your Docker Containers

7. Chapter 5: Using Multi-Container Pods and Design Patterns

8. Chapter 6: Configuring Your Pods Using ConfigMaps and Secrets

9. Chapter 7: Exposing Your Pods with Services

10. Chapter 8: Managing Namespaces in Kubernetes

11. Chapter 9: Persistent Storage in Kubernetes

12. Section 3: Using Managed Pods with Controllers

13. Chapter 10: Running Production-Grade Kubernetes Workloads

14. Chapter 11: Deployment – Deploying Stateless Applications

15. Chapter 12: StatefulSet – Deploying Stateful Applications

16. Chapter 13: DaemonSet – Maintaining Pod Singletons on Nodes

17. Section 4: Deploying Kubernetes on the Cloud

18. Chapter 14: Kubernetes Clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine

19. Chapter 15: Launching a Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Web Services with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

20. Chapter 16: Kubernetes Clusters on Microsoft Azure with Azure Kubernetes Service

21. Section 5: Advanced Kubernetes

22. Chapter 17: Working with Helm Charts

23. Chapter 18: Authentication and Authorization on Kubernetes

24. Chapter 19: Advanced Techniques for Scheduling Pods

25. Chapter 20: Autoscaling Kubernetes Pods and Nodes

26. Chapter 21: Advanced Traffic Routing with Ingress

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What are GCP and GKE?

Before we roll up our sleeves and look at signing up for a GCP account and installing the tools, we will need to launch our GKE-powered cluster. We should also discuss GCP and how it came to be.

Google Cloud Platform

Of the big three public cloud providers, GCP is the newest. We will look at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure over the next two chapters.

Google's foray into public cloud technology started very differently from the other two providers. In April of 2008, Google launched the public preview of its Google App Engine, which was the first component of its cloud offering. Google App Engine, as a service, is still available to this day. The service allows developers to deploy their applications into Google-managed runtimes – these include PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, Node.js, and .NET, along with Google's own programming language, Go.

The next service under the GCP banner didn't arrive until May 2010, and this was...