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

Azure Service Operator

In this section, you will learn more about ASO. We will start by exploring the benefits of using a hosted database versus running StatefulSets on Kubernetes itself, and then learn more details about ASO.

All the examples that you have gone through so far have been self-contained; that is, everything ran inside the Kubernetes cluster. Almost any production application has a state, which is generally stored in a database. While there is a great advantage to being mostly cloud-agnostic, this has a huge disadvantage when it comes to managing a stateful workload such as a database.

When you are running your own database on top of a Kubernetes cluster, you need to take care of scalability, security, high availability, DR, and backup. Managed database services offered by cloud providers can offload you or your team from having to execute these tasks. For example, Azure Database for MySQL comes with enterprise-grade security and compliance, built-in high availability...