What this book covers
Chapter 1, Kubernetes Overview, introduces the Kubernetes architecture and its core concepts. It dives into common Kubernetes tools and gets hands-on with them, showing the big picture of different distributions and ecosystems of Kubernetes.
Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring Kubernetes Clusters, introduces the different configurations of Kubernetes and gets your hands dirty by setting up a Kubernetes cluster with a single worker node and multiple worker nodes using proper tooling.
Chapter 3, Maintaining Kubernetes Clusters, introduces the different approaches while maintaining Kubernetes clusters, and gets hands-on performing upgrades for Kubernetes clusters, backing up and restoring ETCD. This chapter covers 25% of the CKA exam content.
Chapter 4, Application Scheduling and Lifecycle Management, describes using Kubernetes deployments to deploy pods, scaling pods, performing rolling updates and rollbacks, resource management, and using ConfigMaps to configure pods. This chapter covers 15% of the CKA exam content.
Chapter 5, Demystifying Kubernetes Storage, discusses the core concept of Kubernetes storage for stateful workloads and shows how to configure applications with mounted storage and dynamically persistent storage. This chapter covers 10% of the CKA exam content.
Chapter 6, Securing Kubernetes, covers how Kubernetes authentication and authorization pattern works, then dives into Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC). From there, we’ll put managing the security of applications deployed on Kubernetes into perspective. This part is less than 5% of the CKA exam content.
Chapter 7, Demystifying Kubernetes Networking, describes using the Kubernetes networking model and core concepts, as well as how to configure Kubernetes networking on the cluster nodes and network policies, configuring Ingress controllers and Ingress resources, configuring and leveraging CoreDNS, as well as how to choose an appropriate container network interface plugin. This chapter covers 20% of the CKA exam content.
Chapter 8, Monitoring and Logging Kubernetes Clusters and Applications, describes how to monitor Kubernetes cluster components and applications, and how to get infrastructure-level, system-level, and application-level logs to serve as a source of log analytics or for further troubleshooting. Together with the next two chapters about troubleshooting cluster components and applications and troubleshooting Kubernetes security and networking, it covers 30% of the CKA exam content.
Chapter 9, Troubleshooting Cluster Components and Applications, describes the general troubleshooting approaches, and how to troubleshoot errors caused by cluster component failure and issues that occurred during the application deployments.
Chapter 10, Troubleshooting Security and Networking, follows on from Chapter 9 and provides the general troubleshooting approaches to troubleshoot errors caused by RBAC restrictions or networking settings. In Chapter 6, we touched on how to enable Kubernetes RBAC and work with Kubernetes DNS. Be sure to go back and review those important concepts before diving into this chapter.
