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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Creating a cluster completely from scratch

Creating a Kubernetes cluster entirely from scratch is a multi-step endeavor that could likely span multiple chapters of this book. However, since our purpose is to get you up and running with Kubernetes as quickly as possible, we will refrain from describing the entire process.

If you are interested in creating a cluster from scratch, either for educational reasons or a need to finely customize your cluster, a great guide is Kubernetes The Hard Way, which is a full cluster creation tutorial written by Kelsey Hightower. It can be found at https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we can proceed with an overview of the manual cluster creation process.

Provisioning your nodes

First things first – you'll need some infrastructure to run Kubernetes on. Generally, VMs are a good candidate for this, though Kubernetes can be run on bare metal as well. If you...