You're reading from Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure, Third Edition Use Azure Kubernetes Service to automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079945

Length 528 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Gunther Lenz

Nills Franssens

Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure – Third Edition

Foreword

Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER

1. Introduction to containers and Kubernetes

2. Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service

Section 2: Deploying on AKS

3. Application deployment on AKS

4. Building scalable applications

5. Handling common failures in AKS

6. Securing your application with HTTPS

7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application

Section 3: Securing your AKS cluster and workloads

8. Role-based access control in AKS

9. Azure Active Directory pod‑managed identities in AKS

10. Storing secrets in AKS

11. Network security in AKS

Section 4: Integrating with Azure managed services

12. Connecting an application to an Azure database

13. Azure Security Center for Kubernetes

14. Serverless functions

15. Continuous integration and continuous deployment for AKS

Index

Various functions platforms

Functions platforms, such as Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, and Google Cloud Functions, have gained tremendous popularity. The ability to run code without the need to manage servers and having virtually limitless scale is very popular. The downside of using the functions implementation of a cloud provider is that you are locked into the cloud provider's infrastructure and their programming model. Also, you can only run your functions in the public cloud and not in your own datacenter.

A number of open-source functions frameworks have been launched to solve these downsides. There are a number of popular frameworks that can be run on Kubernetes:

Knative (https://cloud.google.com/knative/): Knative is a serverless platform written in the Go language and developed by Google. You can run Knative functions either fully managed on Google Cloud or on your own Kubernetes cluster.
OpenFaaS (https://www.openfaas.com/): OpenFaaS is a serverless framework...