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IoT Edge Computing with MicroK8s

You're reading from   IoT Edge Computing with MicroK8s A hands-on approach to building, deploying, and distributing production-ready Kubernetes on IoT and Edge platforms

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Published in Sep 2022
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ISBN-13 9781803230634
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Karthikeyan Shanmugam is an experienced Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience in the design and development of enterprise applications across industry domains. He is currently working as Senior Solutions Architect at AWS and prior to this, he has worked in companies such as Ramco Systems, Infosys, Cognizant and HCL Technologies. Karthikeyan specializes in cloud, cloud native, containers, container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes), IoT, Digital Twin and microservices domains and has obtained multiple certifications. He is also a contributing author in reputed journals such as InfoQ, ContainerJournal, devopsdotcom, and TheNewStack and writes articles on emerging technologies that are available on his blog upnxtblog.
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Preface 1. Part 1: Foundations of Kubernetes and MicroK8s
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introducing MicroK8s 4. Part 2: Kubernetes as the Preferred Platform for IoT and Edge Computing
5. Chapter 3: Essentials of IoT and Edge Computing 6. Chapter 4: Handling the Kubernetes Platform for IoT and Edge Computing 7. Part 3: Running Applications on MicroK8s
8. Chapter 5: Creating and Implementing Updates on a Multi-Node Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Clusters 9. Chapter 6: Configuring Connectivity for Containers 10. Chapter 7: Setting Up MetalLB and Ingress for Load Balancing 11. Chapter 8: Monitoring the Health of Infrastructure and Applications 12. Chapter 9: Using Kubeflow to Run AI/MLOps Workloads 13. Chapter 10: Going Serverless with Knative and OpenFaaS Frameworks 14. Part 4: Deploying and Managing Applications on MicroK8s
15. Chapter 11: Managing Storage Replication with OpenEBS 16. Chapter 12: Implementing Service Mesh for Cross-Cutting Concerns 17. Chapter 13: Resisting Component Failure Using HA Clusters 18. Chapter 14: Hardware Virtualization for Securing Containers 19. Chapter 15: Implementing Strict Confinement for Isolated Containers 20. Chapter 16: Diving into the Future 21. Frequently Asked Questions About MicroK8s
22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Quick installation

MicroK8s is deployed via snaps. Snaps are containerized (like Docker) software packages that are easy to create and install; they bundle their dependencies, and they work on all major Linux systems without modification. Snaps auto-update and are safe to run. Also, keep in mind that the MicroK8s snap will be updated frequently to keep up with Kubernetes releases.

In the next section, we will guide you through a minimal installation that'll work while we walk through the introduction.

Technical requirements

For the minimal installation, you require the following:

  • You should have either a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu (20.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, or 16.04 LTS) environment to execute the commands or any other operating system that supports snapd.
  • 4 GB of memory and 20 GB of disk space are recommended.

Step 1 – Installation

In the following steps, we will be installing a MicroK8s cluster. We will install a limited set of components...

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