You're reading from Cloud Native with Kubernetes Deploy, configure, and run modern cloud native applications on Kubernetes

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838823078

Length 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Jenkins

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Alexander Raul

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Setting Up Kubernetes

2. Chapter 1: Communicating with Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Kubernetes Cluster

4. Chapter 3: Running Application Containers on Kubernetes

5. Section 2: Configuring and Deploying Applications on Kubernetes

6. Chapter 4: Scaling and Deploying Your Application

7. Chapter 5: Services and Ingress – Communicating with the Outside World

8. Chapter 6: Kubernetes Application Configuration

9. Chapter 7: Storage on Kubernetes

10. Chapter 8: Pod Placement Controls

11. Section 3: Running Kubernetes in Production

12. Chapter 9: Observability on Kubernetes

13. Chapter 10: Troubleshooting Kubernetes

14. Chapter 11: Template Code Generation and CI/CD on Kubernetes

15. Chapter 12: Kubernetes Security and Compliance

16. Section 4: Extending Kubernetes

17. Chapter 13: Extending Kubernetes with CRDs

18. Chapter 14: Service Meshes and Serverless

19. Chapter 15: Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes

20. Assessments

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Kubeadm

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Kops

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