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Kubernetes in Production Best Practices

You're reading from Kubernetes in Production Best Practices

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800202450

Pages 292 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Containerization

Authors (2):

Aly Saleh

Murat Karslioglu

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Kubernetes Infrastructure and Production-Readiness

2. Chapter 2: Architecting Production-Grade Kubernetes Infrastructure

3. Chapter 3: Provisioning Kubernetes Clusters Using AWS and Terraform

4. Chapter 4: Managing Cluster Configuration with Ansible

5. Chapter 5: Configuring and Enhancing Kubernetes Networking Services

6. Chapter 6: Securing Kubernetes Effectively

7. Chapter 7: Managing Storage and Stateful Applications

8. Chapter 8: Deploying Seamless and Reliable Applications

9. Chapter 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability

10. Chapter 10: Operating and Maintaining Efficient Kubernetes Clusters

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Preparing for backups and disaster recovery

In this section, we will be taking a complete, instant, or scheduled backup of the applications running in our cluster. Not every application requires or can even take advantage of regular backups. Stateless application configuration is usually stored in a Git repository and can be easily deployed as part of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines when needed. Of course, this is not the case for stateful applications such as databases, user data, and content. Our business running online services can be challenged to meet legal requirements and industry-specific regulations and retain copies of data for a certain time.

For reasons external or internal to our clusters, we can lose applications or the whole cluster and may need to recover services as quickly as possible. In that case, for disaster recovery use cases, we will learn how to use our backup data stored in an S3 target location to restore services...

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Authors (2)

Aly Saleh

Aly Saleh is a technology entrepreneur, cloud transformation leader, and architect. He has worked for the past 2 decades on building large-scale software solutions and cloud-based platforms and services that are used by millions of users. He is a co-founder of MAVS Cloud, a start-up that empowers organizations to leverage the power of the cloud. He also played various technical roles at Oracle, Vodafone, FreshBooks, Aurea Software, and Ceros. Aly holds degrees in computer science, and he has gained multiple credentials in AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes, with a focus on building cloud platforms, app modernization, containerization, and architecting distributed systems. He is an advocate for cloud best practices, remote work, and globally distributed teams.

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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.

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