You're reading from Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers A practical guide to SRE and achieving Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839218019

Length 482 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Sandeep Madamanchi

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Site Reliability Engineering – A Prescriptive Way to Implement DevOps

2. Chapter 1: DevOps, SRE, and Google Cloud Services for CI/CD FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: SRE Technical Practices – Deep Dive

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Monitoring and Alerting to Target Reliability

5. Chapter 4: Building SRE Teams and Applying Cultural Practices

6. Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD

7. Chapter 5: Managing Source Code Using Cloud Source Repositories

8. Chapter 6: Building Code Using Cloud Build, and Pushing to Container Registry

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Kubernetes Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications

10. Chapter 8: Understanding GKE Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications

11. Chapter 9: Securing the Cluster Using GKE Security Constructs

12. Chapter 10: Exploring GCP Cloud Operations

13. Mock Exam 1

Answers

14. Mock Exam 2

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Getting Ready for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification

Chapter 9: Securing the Cluster Using GKE Security Constructs

Kubernetes, or K8s, is an open source container orchestration system that runs containerized applications but requires significant effort to set up and maintain. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is an enhanced version of K8s that is managed in nature, abstracts the master plane components from the user, provides the ability to auto-upgrade, and supports features such as DNS, logging, and monitoring dashboards as built-ins rather than maintaining them as external plugins. Kubernetes has a lot of critical concepts, jargon, and objects. The last two chapters (Chapter 7, Understanding Kubernetes Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications, and Chapter 8, Understanding GKE Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications) focused on native Kubernetes features such as cluster anatomy, elaborated on key Kubernetes objects, and discussed how applications are scheduled on a cluster. In addition, the focus was extended to learning...