Answers

Here are some sample answers to the chapter questions:

1. Here are a few reasons to consider a hosted Kubernetes offering:
   • You do not want to or do not have the resources to install and manage a Kubernetes cluster
   • You want to concentrate on what brings value to your business, which in most cases is the applications that are supposed to run on Kubernetes and not Kubernetes itself
   • You prefer a cost model where you pay only for what you need
   • The nodes of your Kubernetes cluster are automatically patched and updated
   • Upgrading the version of Kubernetes with zero downtime is easy and straightforward
2. The two main reasons to host container images on the cloud provider’s container registry (such as ACR on Microsoft Azure) are these:
   • The images are geographically close to your Kubernetes cluster, and thus the latency and transfer network costs are minimal
   • Production or production-like clusters are ideally sealed from the internet, and thus the Kubernetes cluster nodes cannot...