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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

Resiliency

Resilient applications and infrastructure can self-heal when things break. In fact, sometimes we call resiliency “self-healing”.

A simple infrastructure example is a node pool. Most cloud platforms let you create a pool of virtual servers called a node pool. If you configure one with 10 virtual servers, and one of them fails, the system can self-heal by spinning up a new node and automatically adding it to the pool.

Kubernetes offers self-healing capabilities for applications and infrastructure. For example, if Kubernetes knows you need 5 containers for a web front-end microservice, and one of them fails, it spins up a new one so you still have 5.

Although these are simple examples, combining resilient applications with resilient infrastructure is extremely powerful.

Loose coupling and building for failure

A key principle when designing resilient systems is to expect things to fail. This forces you to build stuff that can handle failures. A popular and...

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