Summary

There’s a lot that wasn’t talked about in this chapter – storage, different interface types, hardware types, the ins and outs of Kubernetes clusters, and a lot more. The reason why is that this chapter could only be so long and a lot of the topics could take up an entire chapter.

However, the goal of this chapter was to give you a place to start.

As you learned throughout this chapter and may have come to realize, managing Kubernetes on-prem can almost feel like an entire data center within itself. You have networking concerns, scalability concerns, storage concerns, network concerns… the list goes on and on. However, if you want the flexibility of managing Kubernetes yourself without relying on a cloud provider, then this chapter went over what you should think about from the beginning.

Running Kubernetes on-prem is no easy task. You will most likely have to have a team of engineers – or at the very least two to three engineers with...