Summary
Provisioning a Kubernetes cluster can be a task that takes 5 minutes with modern tools and managed cloud services; however, thus this is far from a production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure and it is only sufficient for education and trials. Building a production-grade Kubernetes cluster requires hard work in designing and architecting the underlying infrastructure, the cluster, and the core services running above it.
By now, you have learned about the different aspects and challenges you have to consider while designing, building, and operating your Kubernetes clusters. We explored the different architecture alternatives to deploy Kubernetes clusters, and the important technical decisions associated with this process. Then, we discussed the proposed cluster design, which we will use during the book for the practical exercises, and we highlighted our selection of infrastructure platform, tools, and architecture.
In the next chapter, we will see how to put everything together and use the design concepts we discussed in this chapter to write IaC and follow industry best practices with Terraform to provision our first Kubernetes cluster.
