You're reading from The Kubernetes Bible The definitive guide to deploying and managing Kubernetes across major cloud platforms

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838827694

Length 680 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Nassim Kebbani

Piotr Tylenda

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introducing Kubernetes

2. Chapter 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Kubernetes Architecture – From Docker Images to Running Pods

4. Chapter 3: Installing Your First Kubernetes Cluster

5. Section 2: Diving into Kubernetes Core Concepts

6. Chapter 4: Running Your Docker Containers

7. Chapter 5: Using Multi-Container Pods and Design Patterns

8. Chapter 6: Configuring Your Pods Using ConfigMaps and Secrets

9. Chapter 7: Exposing Your Pods with Services

10. Chapter 8: Managing Namespaces in Kubernetes

11. Chapter 9: Persistent Storage in Kubernetes

12. Section 3: Using Managed Pods with Controllers

13. Chapter 10: Running Production-Grade Kubernetes Workloads

14. Chapter 11: Deployment – Deploying Stateless Applications

15. Chapter 12: StatefulSet – Deploying Stateful Applications

16. Chapter 13: DaemonSet – Maintaining Pod Singletons on Nodes

17. Section 4: Deploying Kubernetes on the Cloud

18. Chapter 14: Kubernetes Clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine

19. Chapter 15: Launching a Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Web Services with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

20. Chapter 16: Kubernetes Clusters on Microsoft Azure with Azure Kubernetes Service

21. Section 5: Advanced Kubernetes

22. Chapter 17: Working with Helm Charts

23. Chapter 18: Authentication and Authorization on Kubernetes

24. Chapter 19: Advanced Techniques for Scheduling Pods

25. Chapter 20: Autoscaling Kubernetes Pods and Nodes

26. Chapter 21: Advanced Traffic Routing with Ingress

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Chapter 6: Configuring Your Pods Using ConfigMaps and Secrets

The last two chapters, entitled Chapter 4, Running Your Docker Containers, and Chapter 5, Using Multi-Container Pods and Design Patterns, introduced you to launching Docker containers using Kubernetes. At this point, you know that whenever you need to launch a container on Kubernetes, you will need to do so using Pods. This was the key concept for you to understand and assimilate. We also learned that Kubernetes is nothing more than a REST API that describes resources types we call Kind. When created against an API, each instance of a Kind will result in a computing resource being provisioned on a worker node. A Pod is one of these resources, and when they're created against the worker node, this results in Docker containers.

In this chapter, we'll learn about two new Kubernetes objects: ConfigMaps and Secrets.

These are two very important objects or resources that allow you to configure the apps that run...