Quick Start Kubernetes
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.
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About the Author
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Table of Contents
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About the book
- Chapter overview
- What you’ll learn
- 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
- Microservices
- Cloud-native
- Orchestration
- Other useful Kubernetes things to know
- Chapter summary
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2: Why Kubernetes is so important
- Why the cloud providers need Kubernetes
- Why users need Kubernetes
- Chapter Summary
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3: Kubernetes architecture
- Control plane nodes and worker nodes
- Hosted Kubernetes
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Managing Kubernetes with the
kubectlcommand line tool - Chapter summary
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4: Getting Kubernetes
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Install Docker and
kubectlwith Docker Desktop - Create a multi-node Kubernetes cluster with Docker Desktop
- Create a multi-node Kubernetes cluster in the Civo Cloud
- Get the sample app
- Chapter summary
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Install Docker and
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5: Containerizing an app
- Pre-requisites
- The sample app
- Containerize the app
- Share the image on a registry
- Chapter summary
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6: Running an app on Kubernetes
- Pre-reqs
- Deploy the app to Kubernetes
- Connect to the app
- Clean-up
- Chapter summary
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7: Self-healing
- Intro to Kubernetes Deployments
- Self-heal from an app 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
- Chapter summary
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9: Performing a rolling update
- Pre-requisites
- Deploy the rollout
- Clean-up
- Chapter summary
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10: What next
- Books
- Video courses
- Events
- Show some love
- Let’s connect
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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 the app
- Chapter 9: Performing a rolling update
- Terminology
- Index
- More from the author
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