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Published inOct 2017
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Hideto Saito
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Hideto Saito

Hideto Saito has around 20 years of experience in the computer industry. In 1998, while working for Sun Microsystems Japan, he was impressed by Solaris OS, OPENSTEP, and Sun Ultra Enterprise 10000 (also known as StarFire). He then decided to pursue UNIX and macOS operating systems. In 2006, he relocated to southern California as a software engineer to develop products and services running on Linux and macOS X. He was especially renowned for his quick Objective-C code when he was drunk. He is also an enthusiast of Japanese anime, drama, and motorsports, and loves Japanese Otaku culture.
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Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee
Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee
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Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee

Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee is a DevOps and software developer. She has worked in the software industry on a wide range of projects for over five years. As a technology enthusiast, she loves trying and learning about new technologies, which makes her life happier and more fulfilling. In her free time, she enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with the people she love
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Cheng-Yang Wu
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Cheng-Yang Wu

Cheng-Yang Wu has been tackling infrastructure and system reliability since he received his master's degree in computer science from National Taiwan University. His laziness prompted him to master DevOps skills to maximize his efficiency at work so as to squeeze in writing code for fun. He enjoys cooking as it's just like working with software a perfect dish always comes from balanced flavors and fine-tuned tastes.
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Understanding Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a platform for managing application containers across multiple hosts. It provides lots of management features for container-oriented applications, such as auto scaling, rolling deployment, compute resource, and volume management. Same as the nature of containers, it's designed to run anywhere, so we're able to run it on a bare metal, in our data center, on the public cloud, or even hybrid cloud.

Kubernetes considers most of the operational needs for application containers. The highlights are:

  • Container deployment
  • Persistent storage
  • Container health monitoring
  • Compute resource management
  • Auto-scaling
  • High availability by cluster federation

Kubernetes is a perfect match for microservices. With Kubernetes, we can create a Deployment to rollout, rollover, or roll back selected containers (Chapter 7, Continous Delivery). Containers...

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Published in: Oct 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788396646

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Hideto Saito

Hideto Saito has around 20 years of experience in the computer industry. In 1998, while working for Sun Microsystems Japan, he was impressed by Solaris OS, OPENSTEP, and Sun Ultra Enterprise 10000 (also known as StarFire). He then decided to pursue UNIX and macOS operating systems. In 2006, he relocated to southern California as a software engineer to develop products and services running on Linux and macOS X. He was especially renowned for his quick Objective-C code when he was drunk. He is also an enthusiast of Japanese anime, drama, and motorsports, and loves Japanese Otaku culture.
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Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee

Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee is a DevOps and software developer. She has worked in the software industry on a wide range of projects for over five years. As a technology enthusiast, she loves trying and learning about new technologies, which makes her life happier and more fulfilling. In her free time, she enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with the people she love
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Cheng-Yang Wu

Cheng-Yang Wu has been tackling infrastructure and system reliability since he received his master's degree in computer science from National Taiwan University. His laziness prompted him to master DevOps skills to maximize his efficiency at work so as to squeeze in writing code for fun. He enjoys cooking as it's just like working with software a perfect dish always comes from balanced flavors and fine-tuned tastes.
Read more about Cheng-Yang Wu