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Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230030
Pages 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Marc Boorshtein Marc Boorshtein
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Scott Surovich Scott Surovich
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Docker and Container Essentials 2. Deploying Kubernetes Using KinD 3. Kubernetes Bootcamp 4. Services, Load Balancing, ExternalDNS, and Global Balancing 5. Integrating Authentication into Your Cluster 6. RBAC Policies and Auditing 7. Deploying a Secured Kubernetes Dashboard 8. Extending Security Using Open Policy Agent 9. Node Security with GateKeeper 10. Auditing Using Falco, DevOps AI, and ECK 11. Backing Up Workloads 12. An Introduction to Istio 13. Building and Deploying Applications on Istio 14. Provisioning a Platform 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Exploring the control plane

As its name suggests, the control plane controls every aspect of a cluster. If your control plane goes down, you can probably imagine that your cluster will encounter issues. Without a control plane, a cluster will not have any scheduling abilities, which means that workloads that are running will remain running unless they are stopped and restarted. Since the control plane is extremely important, it is always suggested that you have at least three master nodes. Many production installations run more than three master nodes, but the number of installed nodes should always be an odd number. Let's look at why the control plane and its components are so vital to a running cluster by examining each one.

The Kubernetes API server

The first component to understand in a cluster is the kube-apiserver component. Since Kubernetes is application programming interface (API)-driven, every request that comes into a cluster goes through the API server. Let...

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