- Kubernetes’ internals
- Deploying containers across a cluster
- Securing clusters
- Updating applications with zero downtime
About the Reader
Written for intermediate software developers with little or no familiarity with Docker or container orchestration systems.
About the Author
Marko Luksa is an engineer at Red Hat working on Kubernetes and OpenShift.
Table of Contents
PART 1 – OVERVIEW
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- Introducing Kubernetes
- First steps with Docker and Kubernetes
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PART 2 – CORE CONCEPTS
- Pods: running containers in Kubernetes
- Replication and other controllers: deploying managed pods
- Services: enabling clients to discover and talk to pods
- Volumes: attaching disk storage to containers
- ConfigMaps and Secrets: configuring applications
- Accessing pod metadata and other resources from applications
- Deployments: updating applications declaratively
- StatefulSets: deploying replicated stateful applications
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PART 3 – BEYOND THE BASICS
- Understanding Kubernetes internals
- Securing the Kubernetes API server
- Securing cluster nodes and the network
- Managing pods’ computational resources
- Automatic scaling of pods and cluster nodes
- Advanced scheduling
- Best practices for developing apps
- Extending Kubernetes