50 Kubernetes Concepts Every DevOps Engineer Should Know: Your go-to guide for making production-level decisions on how and why to implement Kubernetes

Length: 278 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2023-01-30
ISBN-10: 1804611476
ISBN-13: 9781804611470
Sales Rank: #1602999 (See Top 100 Books)

A must-have Kubernetes book to learn key concepts for succeeding in any production environment, be it a greenfield Kubernetes environment or your cloud-native journey

Key Features

Advance in your Kubernetes journey with guidance from a seasoned k8s practitioner and trainer
Discover best practices for implementing Kubernetes in any production environment
Go beyond the basics and work with Kubernetes applications in every environment

Book Description

Kubernetes is a trending topic among engineers, CTOs, CIOs, and other technically sound professionals. Due to its proliferation and importance for all cloud technologies, DevOps engineers nowadays need a solid grasp of key Kubernetes concepts to help their organization thrive.

This book equips you with all the requisite information about how Kubernetes works and how to use it for the best results. You’ll learn everything from why cloud native is important to implementing Kubernetes clusters to deploying applications in production. This book takes you on a learning journey, starting from what cloud native is and how to get started with Kubernetes in the cloud, on-premises, and PaaS environments such as OpenShift. Next, you’ll learn about deploying applications in many ways, including Deployment specs, Ingress Specs, and StatefulSet specs. Finally, you’ll be comfortable working with Kubernetes monitoring, observability, and security. Each chapter of 50 Kubernetes Concepts Every DevOps Engineer Should Know is built upon the previous chapter, ensuring that you develop practical skills as you work through the code examples in GitHub, allowing you to follow along while giving you practical knowledge.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to implement Kubernetes in any environment, whether it’s an existing environment, a greenfield environment, or your very own lab running in the cloud or your home.

What you will learn

Find out how Kubernetes works on-premises, in the cloud, and in PaaS environments
Work with networking, cluster management, and application deployment
Understand why cloud native is crucial for Kubernetes applications
Deploy apps in different states, including Stateless and Stateful
Monitor and implement observability in your environment
Explore the functioning of Kubernetes security at the cluster, user, and application level

Who this book is for

This book is for cloud engineers, developers, DevOps engineers, and infrastructure engineers responsible for inheriting a Kubernetes environment or creating a greenfield Kubernetes environment. If you are a professional who wants to get started with cloud-native applications and implement k8s best practices, then this book is a must-read. If you have engineered environments in the cloud and on-premises and understand how to deploy applications with a solid tenure in a developer role, this book will help you further your skills.

50 Kubernetes Concepts Every DevOps Engineer  Should Know
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Part 1: First 20 Kubernetes Concepts – In and Out of the Cloud
Chapter 1: Kubernetes in Today’s World
    Technical requirements
    The shift to the cloud
        Why organizations care about the cloud
        What the cloud did for engineers
    Kubernetes, the new cloud OS and data center
        Kubernetes in the cloud
        Why Kubernetes?
        Kubernetes as a data center
    Cloud-native apps and why they’re important
        What cloud-native apps do for organizations
        The world is cloud-based
        Engineering talent is toward the cloud
    Abstraction is easier, but with a twist
        What abstraction does
        What abstraction doesn’t do
    Start slow and go fast
        Understanding the engineering need for Kubernetes
        Understanding the business need for Kubernetes
        Planning is the hard part
    Summary
    Further reading
Chapter 2: Getting the Ball Rolling with Kubernetes and the Top Three Cloud Platforms
    Technical requirements
    Azure Kubernetes Service
        Creating an AKS cluster manually
        Creating an AKS cluster with automation
        Scaling an AKS cluster
        AKS and Virtual Kubelet
        Managing and maintaining AKS clusters
    AWS EKS
        Creating an EKS cluster manually
        Creating an EKS cluster with Terraform
        Scaling an EKS cluster
        EKS Fargate profiles
    GKE
        Creating a GKE cluster with Terraform
        GKE Autopilot
        A quick note on multi-cloud
    Summary
    Further reading
Chapter 3: Running Kubernetes with Other Cloud Pals
    Technical requirements
    Understanding Linode Kubernetes Engine
        Why LKE?
        Setting up LKE manually
        Automating LKE deployments
    Exploring DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes
        Why DigitalOcean Kubernetes Engine?
        Setting up DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes manually
        Automating DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes
    What is Kubernetes PaaS and how does it differ?
        OpenShift
        OpenShift in the enterprise
        Getting started with OpenShift Sandbox
        OpenShift on AWS
    Summary
    Further reading
Chapter 4: The On-Prem Kubernetes Reality Check
    Technical requirements
    Understanding operating systems and infrastructure
        Kubeadm Deployment
        System size
        System location
        Operating system
    Troubleshooting on-prem Kubernetes clusters
        Server logs and infrastructure troubleshooting
        Network observability
        Kubernetes metrics
        crictl
        kubectl
    Introducing hybrid services
        Azure Stack HCI
        Google Anthos
        A quick note about other infrastructure managers
    Exploring networking and system components
        kube-proxy
        CNI
        Kubernetes resource communication
        DNS
        Service mesh and Ingress
    Getting to know virtualized bare metal
        Virtualizing your environment
        Where to run Kubernetes
    Summary
    Further reading
Part 2: Next 15 Kubernetes Concepts – Application Strategy and Deployments
Chapter 5: Deploying Kubernetes Apps Like a True Cloud Native
    Technical requirements
    Understanding cloud-native apps
        What’s a cloud-native app?
        Cloud-specific cloud native
        What are microservices?
    Learning about Kubernetes app deployments
        Kubernetes manifests
        Controllers and operators
        Different ways to deploy with higher-level controllers
        Scaling
        Multi-container Pods
        Liveness and readiness probes
    Exploring segregation and namespaces
        Namespaces
        Single tenancy
        Multi-tenancy
    Investigating stateless and stateful apps
        Stateful versus stateless
        Container Storage Interface
        Volumes
        Resource requests and limits
    Upgrading Kubernetes apps
        Types of upgrades
        What happens to an app being upgraded?
        Rolling updates
        Rollbacks
    Summary
    Further reading
Chapter 6: Kubernetes Deployment– Same Game, Next Level
    Technical requirements
    Getting to know Helm charts and Kustomize
        Why think about deployment methods for manifests?
        Helm charts
        Kustomize
    Deploying with CI/CD and GitOps
        What is CI/CD?
        Using CI/CD for Kubernetes deployments
        What is GitOps?
        Using GitOps for automated deployments
        Production use cases for CI/CD and GitOps
    Troubleshooting application deployments
        Troubleshooting Pods
        Troubleshooting Services
        Troubleshooting Deployments
    Service meshes and Ingresses
        Why Ingress?
        Why service meshes?
    Summary
    Further reading
Part 3: Final 15 Kubernetes Concepts – Security and Monitoring
Chapter 7: Kubernetes Monitoring and Observability
    Technical requirements
    How is monitoring different than observability?
        What’s monitoring?
        What’s observability?
        Monitoring versus observability examples
    Monitoring and observability tools for Kubernetes
        The Kubernetes Dashboard
        Azure Monitor
        AWS Container Insights
        Grafana/Prometheus
    Observability practices
        Logging
        Metrics
        Traces
    Monitoring Kubernetes resources
        Monitoring Pods
    Summary
    Further reading
Chapter 8: Security Reality Check
    Technical requirements
    Out-of-the-box Kubernetes security
        Security breakdown
        Kubernetes security
    Investigating cluster security
        Cluster hardening and benchmarks
        System scanning
        Cluster network security
        Upgrading the Kubernetes API
        Audit logging and troubleshooting
    Understanding RBAC
        What is RBAC?
        Roles and ClusterRoles
        RoleBindings and ClusterRoleBindings
    Kubernetes resource (object) security
        Pod security
        Policy enforcement
        Scanning container images
    Kubernetes Secrets
        Creating Kubernetes Secrets
        Don’t use Kubernetes Secrets
    Summary
    Further reading
Index
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