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Mastering Kubernetes

You're reading from   Mastering Kubernetes Large scale container deployment and management

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461001
Length 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
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Preface 1. Understanding Kubernetes Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Kubernetes Clusters 3. Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting 4. High Availability and Reliability 5. Configuring Kubernetes Security, Limits, and Accounts 6. Using Critical Kubernetes Resources 7. Handling Kubernetes Storage 8. Running Stateful Applications with Kubernetes 9. Rolling Updates, Scalability, and Quotas 10. Advanced Kubernetes Networking 11. Running Kubernetes on Multiple Clouds and Cluster Federation 12. Customizing Kubernetes - API and Plugins 13. Handling the Kubernetes Package Manager 14. The Future of Kubernetes Index

Dynamic plugins

This one is not listed on any official roadmap. I plan to discuss it with the community, and if there is positive response, to start driving this effort forward.

Kubernetes is implemented using Go. Go is a great language that puts a lot of emphasis on simplicity. As such, one of its prominent features is the single executable binary. There is no separate runtime, and until Go 1.8 there were no dynamically loaded libraries. That approach is great in many situations. However, it is a hindrance for flexible and dynamically configured applications. Kubernetes is, of course, all about flexibility and plugins. But those plugins (with the exceptions of CNI plugins) must all be compiled into the Kubelet or the API server. CNI plugins are a different story and are deployed as separate executables, but that limits the interface for standard input and output. That works for CNI plugins because the API surface area is limited, but is not a good option for many more interactive plugins...

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