The information contained within this chapter is just one possible way that you could approach building and managing a cluster. When building a Kubernetes cluster, there are many choices to be made, and almost as many tools that could be chosen. For the purposes of this chapter, I have chosen to use tools that make it simple to illustrate the process of building a cluster. If you or your team has a preference for using different tools, then the concepts and architecture outlined in this chapter will transfer quite easily to other tools.
In this chapter, we are going to launch our cluster in a way that will make it more suitable for production workloads. Much of what we do here will be familiar to you from Chapter 3, Reach for the Cloud, but we are going to build on the process we outlined there in two key ways. Firstly, when building infrastructure that you...