Deploying and Scaling Applications with Kubernetes
In this chapter, we’ll continue exploring Kubernetes with its rich functionality and ecosystem. We’ll see which other Kubernetes resources exist and what their purpose is, how to implement the self-healing and scaling of applications with Kubernetes, how to use Kubernetes service discovery, and how to run stateful workloads with Kubernetes. We will also perform several exercises with the minikube Kubernetes we’ve installed in the previous chapter (in case you’ve skipped it – check the last section of Chapter 5).
This is going to be one of the densest and most important chapters, so make sure to answer all the questions at the end and complete all practical assignments firsthand before moving further on. If you find it hard to understand some parts, read them twice and refer to the Further reading section.
We’re about to cover the following exciting topics:
- Deployments, ReplicaSets...
