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The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

You're reading from   The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit Continuous Deployment to Kubernetes: Continuously deploying applications with Jenkins to a Kubernetes cluster

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643546
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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1. Deploying Stateful Applications at Scale 2. Enabling Process Communication with Kube API Through Service Accounts FREE CHAPTER 3. Defining Continuous Deployment 4. Packaging Kubernetes Applications 5. Distributing Kubernetes Applications 6. Installing and Setting Up Jenkins 7. Creating a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Jenkins 8. Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and GitOps 9. Now It Is Your Turn 10. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Installing kubectl and Creating a Cluster with minikube 1. Appendix B: Using Kubernetes Operations (kops)

Exploring the default ServiceAccount

Jenkins might not be the best starting point in our exploration of ServiceAccounts. Too many things are happening that are out of our control. There's too much "magic" hidden behind Jenkins code. Instead, we'll start with something simpler. We'll run kubectl as a Pod. If we manage to make that work, we should have no problem applying the newly acquired knowledge to Jenkins and other similar use-cases we might have.

Unfortunately, there is no kubectl official image (at least not in Docker Hub), so I built one. The definition is in the vfarcic/kubectl (https://github.com/vfarcic/kubectl) GitHub repository. Let's take a quick look.

1  curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vfarcic/kubectl/master/Dockerfile

The Dockerfile is so uneventful and straightforward that there's probably no need going through it. It&apos...

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The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit
Published in: Nov 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781838643546
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