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

27. Other Books You May Enjoy

Launching a multi-node Kubernetes cluster with Kind

In this section, we are going to discuss another tool called Kind, which is far less known than Minikube, but which resembles it a lot. This tool is also designed to run a Kubernetes cluster locally just like Minikube. The main difference is that Kind is capable of launching multi-node Kubernetes clusters contrary to Minikube, which is a single-node solution.

The whole idea behind Kind is to use Docker containers such as Kubernetes worker nodes thanks to the Docker-in-Docker (DIND) model. By launching Docker containers, which themselves contain the Docker daemon and the Kubelet, you can manage to make them behave as Kubernetes worker nodes.

This is exactly the same as when you use the Docker driver for Minikube, except that there, it will not be done in a single container but in several. The result is a local multi-node cluster. Similar to Minikube, Kind is free, and you don't have to pay to use it.

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