Quick Start Kubernetes
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Quick Start Kubernetes

About the Book

2024 edition!

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

Nigel Poulton
Nigel Poulton

Nigel is a leading name in the cloud community. He's a Docker Captain and author of best-selling books, including Docker Deep Dive, The Kubernetes Book and The KCNA Book. Through his books and video training courses he's helped over 1 million people take their first steps with containers and Kubernetes. In his spare time, he spends time with his family, tries to play golf, and dreams of American muscle cars.

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Table of Contents

  • About the book
    • What does the book cover
    • 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
  • 1: What is Kubernetes
    • Microservices
    • Cloud-native
    • Orchestration
    • Other useful Kubernetes things to know
    • Chapter summary
  • 2: Why Kubernetes is so important
    • Why the cloud providers need Kubernetes
    • Why the user community needs Kubernetes
    • Chapter Summary
  • 3: Kubernetes architecture
    • Control plane nodes and worker nodes
    • Hosted Kubernetes
    • Managing Kubernetes with the kubectl command line tool
    • Chapter summary
  • 4: Getting Kubernetes
    • Get Docker and kubectl with Docker Desktop
    • Get a single-node Kubernetes cluster with Docker Desktop
    • Get a multi-node Kubernetes cluster with Civo Cloud
    • Get the sample app
    • Chapter summary
  • 5: Containerizing an app
    • Pre-requisites
    • The sample app
    • Containerize the app
    • Host the image on a registry
    • Chapter summary
  • 6: Running an app on Kubernetes
    • Pre-reqs
    • Deploy the app to Kubernetes
    • Connect to the app
    • Clean-up
    • Chapter summary
  • 7: Self-healing
    • Intro to Kubernetes Deployments
    • Self-heal from a Pod failure
    • Self-heal from a worker node failure
    • Chapter summary
  • 8: Scaling the app
    • Pre-requisites
    • Scale an application up
    • Scale an application down
    • Chapter summary
  • 9: Performing a rolling update
    • Pre-requisites
    • Deploy the rollout
    • Clean-up
    • Chapter summary
  • 10: What next
    • Books
    • Video courses
    • Events
    • Show some love
    • Let’s connect
  • 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
  • Index
  • More from the author

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