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The KCNA Book

You're reading from  The KCNA Book

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080399
Pages 197 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Nigel Poulton Nigel Poulton
Profile icon Nigel Poulton

Table of Contents (12) Chapters

1. Getting started 2. 1: Setting the scene 3. 2: Cloud native architecture 4. 3: Container orchestration 5. 4: Kubernetes Fundamentals 6. 5: Cloud native application delivery 7. 6: Cloud native observability 8. The exam 9. 8: Sample test
10. What next Appendix A: Chapter quiz answers 1. Appendix B: Sample Test answers

Exam essentials

Autoscaling
Autoscaling is the ability for applications and infrastructure to automatically grow and shrink to meet demand. When demand goes up, more application instances and more infrastructure can be dynamically added to the environment. When demand drops, application instances and infrastructure can be removed. Kubernetes has a horizontal pod autoscaler to add and remove application instances to meet demand. It also has a cluster autoscaler that integrates with cloud platforms to add and remove nodes to meet infrastructure requirements. Metrics are used to make scaling decisions. Basic metrics include CPU and memory, whereas custom application metrics include things such as queue length and request response time.
Serverless
Serverless is a modern event-driven computing model where small functions are associated with specific events and only execute when those events occur. Sometimes we call it Function as a Service (FaaS) and many public clouds offer proprietary...
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