The basics of Kubernetes infrastructure

If you are reading this book, you already made your decision to take your Kubernetes infrastructure to an advanced level, which means you are beyond the stage of evaluating the technology. To build production infrastructure, the investment remains a burden and it still needs a solid justification to the business and the leadership within your organization. We will try to be very specific in this section about why we need a reliable Kubernetes infrastructure, and to clarify the challenges you should expect in production.

Kubernetes adoption is exploding across organizations all over the world, and we expect this growth to continue to increase, as the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that around 95 percent of new microservices will be deployed in containers by 2021. Most companies find that containers and Kubernetes help to optimize costs, simplify deployment and operations, and decrease time to market, as well as play a pivotal...