Summary
Building a production-grade and reliable Kubernetes infrastructure and clusters is more than just provisioning a cluster and deploying applications to it. It is a continuous journey that combines infrastructure and services planning, design, implementation, CI/CD, operations, and maintenance.
Every aspect comes with its own set of technical decisions to make, best practices to follow, and challenges to overcome.
By now, you have a brief understanding of Kubernetes infrastructure basics, production challenges, and readiness features. Finally, we looked at the industry best practices for building and managing successful Kubernetes productions and learned about the cloud-native approach.
In the next chapter, we will learn the practical details of how to design and architect a successful Kubernetes cluster and the related infrastructure, while exploring the technical and architectural decisions, choices, and alternatives that you need to handle when rolling out your production...
