Section 2: Creating Kubernetes Development Clusters, Understanding objects, and Exposing Services

In this second section, we will move onto Kubernetes clusters and objects. The first chapter in this section will explain how to use a popular tool for creating Kubernetes clusters, called KinD. We will explain how to create differnet clusters that range from a single-node cluster to a multiple-node cluster that uses HAProxy as a load balancer for the worker nodes. With a working Kubernetes cluster, we move onto the next chapter, which will review the Kubernetes infrastructure components and the most commonly used Kubernetes objects. We close out this section by explaining a commonly misunderstood topic, exposing services in a cluster. We will look at Kubernetes service types, discuss how to use Layer 7 and Layer 4 load balancers, and see how to register dynamic names for services using External-DNS.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 4, Deploying...