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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned to develop the infrastructure code for Kubernetes clusters using Terraform and AWS. You went through practical steps to implement this code. We started by creating the network components, followed by the cluster's components, using AWS VPC, EKS, autoscaling groups, and other AWS services.

This chapter introduced you to Terraform practical development and its usage in relation to production infrastructure provisioning. It showed you how to follow the best practices of the declarative IaC, and also the best practices of decomposing your IaC into modules and combining them to create Kubernetes clusters.

All of this establishes a foundation for the forthcoming chapters, where we will build on the knowledge introduced here to take the Kubernetes cluster to the next level of its production-readiness journey.

In the next chapter, you will learn in detail about Kubernetes cluster configuration management. You will develop a dynamic templating...

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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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