The Kubernetes Book
The Kubernetes Book
About the Book
This is a book about Kubernetes - no prior knowledge required!
It's designed to teach you the theory and the practical as fast as possible so that you can hit the ground running with your first Kubernetes deployment.
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Table of Contents
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0: Preface
- Editions Paperbacks, hardbacks, eBooks, audio, and translations
- The sample app and GitHub repo
- Responsible language
- Feedback and contacting me
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1: Kubernetes primer
- Kubernetes background
- Kubernetes as the operating system of the cloud
- Chapter summary
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2: Kubernetes principles of operation
- Kubernetes from 40K feet
- Control plane and worker nodes
- Kubernetes DNS
- Packaging apps for Kubernetes
- The declarative model and desired state
- Pods
- Deployments
- Service objects and stable networking
- Chapter summary
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3: Getting Kubernetes
- Creating a Kubernetes cluster on your laptop
- Creating a hosted Kubernetes cluster in the cloud
- Install and work with kubectl
- Chapter summary
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4: Working with Pods
- Pod theory
- Multi-container Pods
- Hands-on with Pods
- Clean-up
- Chapter Summary
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5: Virtual clusters with Namespaces
- Use cases for Namespaces
- Inspecting Namespaces
- Creating and managing Namespaces
- Deploying to Namespaces
- Clean-up
- Chapter Summary
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6: Kubernetes Deployments
- Deployment theory
- Create a Deployment
- Perform scaling operations
- Perform a rolling update
- Perform a rollback
- Clean-up
- Chapter summary
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7: Kubernetes Services
- Service Theory
- Hands-on with Services
- Clean-up
- Chapter Summary
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8: Ingress
- Setting the Scene for Ingress
- Ingress architecture
- Hands-on with Ingress
- Clean-up
- Chapter summary
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9: Service discovery deep dive
- Quick background
- Service registration
- Service discovery
- Service discovery and Namespaces
- Troubleshooting service discovery
- Chapter summary
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10: Kubernetes storage
- The big picture
- Storage Providers
- The Container Storage Interface (CSI)
- The Kubernetes persistent volume subsystem
- Dynamic provisioning with Storage Classes
- Hands-on
- Clean-up
- Chapter Summary
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11: ConfigMaps and Secrets
- The big picture
- ConfigMap theory
- Hands-on with ConfigMaps
- Hands-on with Secrets
- Clean-up
- Chapter Summary
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12: StatefulSets
- The theory of StatefulSets
- Hands-on with StatefulSets
- Chapter Summary
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13: API security and RBAC
- API security big picture
- Authentication
- Authorization (RBAC)
- Admission control
- Chapter summary
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14: The Kubernetes API
- Kubernetes API big picture
- The API server
- The API
- Chapter summary
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15: Threat modeling Kubernetes
- Threat modeling
- Spoofing
- Tampering
- Repudiation
- Information Disclosure
- Denial of Service
- Elevation of privilege
- Chapter summary
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16: Real-world Kubernetes security
- CI/CD pipeline
- Infrastructure and networking
- Identity and access management (IAM)
- Auditing and security monitoring
- Real world example
- Chapter summary
- Terminology
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Outro
- About the front cover
- A word on the book’s diagrams
- Connect with me
- Feedback and reviews
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