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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About the authors
- Author: Nigel Poulton
- Contributing author: Pushkar Joglekar
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0: Preface
- Paperbacks, hardbacks, eBooks, audio, and translations
- The sample app and GitHub repo
- Windows users
- Terminology and responsible language
- Feedback
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1: Kubernetes primer
- Important Kubernetes background
- Kubernetes: 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
- 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
- Install everything with Docker Desktop
- Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)
- Build a Kubernetes cluster in the Linode Cloud
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Configure
kubectl - Test your LKE cluster
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More about
kubectland your kubeconfig file - 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
- Intro to Namespaces
- Namespace use cases
- Default Namespaces
- Creating and managing Namespaces
- Deploying objects to Namespaces
- Clean up
- Chapter Summary
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6: Kubernetes Deployments
- Deployment theory
- Create a Deployment
- Manually scale the app
- 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: Wasm on Kubernetes
- Wasm Primer
- Understanding Wasm on Kubernetes
- Hands-on with Wasm on Kubernetes
- Chapter Summary
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10: Service discovery deep dive
- Setting the scene
- The service registry
- Service registration
- Service discovery
- Service discovery and Namespaces
- Troubleshooting service discovery
- Clean up
- Chapter summary
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11: 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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12: ConfigMaps and Secrets
- The big picture
- ConfigMap theory
- Hands-on with ConfigMaps
- Hands-on with Secrets
- Clean up
- Chapter Summary
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13: StatefulSets
- StatefulSet theory
- Hands-on with StatefulSets
- Clean up
- Chapter Summary
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14: API security and RBAC
- API security big picture
- Authentication
- Authorization (RBAC)
- Admission control
- Chapter summary
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15: The Kubernetes API
- Kubernetes API big picture
- The API server
- The API
- Chapter summary
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16: Threat modeling Kubernetes
- Threat modeling
- Spoofing
- Tampering
- Repudiation
- Information Disclosure
- Denial of Service
- Elevation of privilege
- Chapter summary
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17: Real-world Kubernetes security
- Security in the software delivery pipeline
- Workload isolation
- Identity and access management (IAM)
- Security monitoring and auditing
- Real-world example
- Chapter summary
- Terminology
- Outro and what next
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