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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Google GKE is a cloud offering that is part of GCP, which is Google's cloud offering. If you do not want to install anything on your local system, this solution might be good for you. Indeed, Google GKE is a cloud-based solution, meaning that the resulting Kubernetes won't run on your own system.

Google GKE allows you to set up a full-featured Kubernetes cluster on the cloud that is built for production. The result of the service will be a Kubernetes cluster that runs on Google's machines on their cloud platform, not on your own local machine. Your local machine will only serve as a Kubernetes client thanks to Kubectl pointing to a remote endpoint exposed by Google.

The main advantage is that you will have a real production-ready and full-featured Kubernetes cluster to practice with, which is ideal in which to train and improve your skill. However, Google GKE is a commercial product, so you'll have to spend...

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