Quick Start Kubernetes
Quick Start Kubernetes
About the Book
Do you need to figure out what Kubernetes is all about? Do you like learning through hands-on?
If yes, this is the book for you...
Quick Start Kubernetes, brought to you by best-selling author Nigel Poulton, assumes zero prior experience and gets you to the point you can hold your own deploying and managing a simple app. And it does it in less than 100 pages!
You'll learn:
- Why we have Kubernetes
- What Kubernetes is
- Where Kubernetes is going
- The fundamentals of Kubernetes architecture
You'll also perform the following hands-on tasks:
- Build a cluster
- Containerize an app
- Deploy the app to Kubernetes
- Break the app and watch it self-heal
- Scale the app
- Perform a rolling update
Along the way, Nigel will explain everything as clearly as possible and bust every piece of jargon.
When you're done, you'll be in love with Kubernetes and ready to put your skills to use.
About the Author
Bundles that include this book
Table of Contents
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About the author
- Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton)
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About the book
- Who is the book for
- What does the book cover
- Will the book make you a Kubernetes expert
- Will you know what you’re talking about when you finish the book
- Editions
- Terminology and responsible language
- Feedback
- The sample app
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1: What is Kubernetes
- What are microservices
- What is cloud-native
- What is an orchestrator
- Other useful Kubernetes stuff to know
- Chapter summary
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2: Why we need Kubernetes
- Why tech companies need Kubernetes
- Why the user community needs Kubernetes
- Chapter Summary
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3: What does Kubernetes look like
- Control plane nodes and worker nodes
- Control plane nodes
- Worker nodes
- Hosted Kubernetes
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Managing Kubernetes with the
kubectlcommand line tool - Chapter summary
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4: Getting Kubernetes
- Kubernetes on your laptop with Docker Desktop
- Kubernetes in the cloud with Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)
- Chapter summary
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5: Creating a containerized app
- Pre-requisites
- Get the application code
- Build the container image
- Host the image on a registry
- Chapter summary
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6: Running an app on Kubernetes
- Verify your Kubernetes cluster
- Deploy the app to Kubernetes
- Connect to the app
- Clean-up
- Chapter summary
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7: Adding self-healing
- Intro to Kubernetes Deployments
- Self-heal from a Pod failure
- Self-heal from a worker node failure
- Chapter summary
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8: Scaling the app
- Pre-requisites
- Scale an application up
- Scale an application down
- Another word on labels
- Important clean-up
- Chapter summary
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9: Performing a rolling update
- Pre-requisites
- Update the app
- Clean-up
- Chapter summary
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10: What next
- Other books
- Video courses
- Events
- Let’s connect
- Show some love
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Appendix A: Lab code
- Chapter 5: Creating a containerized app
- Chapter 6: Running an app on Kubernetes
- Chapter 7: Adding self-healing
- Chapter 8: Scaling an app
- Chapter 9: Performing a rolling update
- Terminology
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