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Mastering Kubernetes - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611395
Pages 746 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
Profile icon Gigi Sayfan

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Understanding Kubernetes Architecture 2. Creating Kubernetes Clusters 3. High Availability and Reliability 4. Securing Kubernetes 5. Using Kubernetes Resources in Practice 6. Managing Storage 7. Running Stateful Applications with Kubernetes 8. Deploying and Updating Applications 9. Packaging Applications 10. Exploring Kubernetes Networking 11. Running Kubernetes on Multiple Clusters 12. Serverless Computing on Kubernetes 13. Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters 14. Utilizing Service Meshes 15. Extending Kubernetes 16. Governing Kubernetes 17. Running Kubernetes in Production 18. The Future of Kubernetes 19. Other Books You May Enjoy
20. Index

Live cluster updates

One of the most complicated and risky tasks involved in running a Kubernetes cluster is a live upgrade. The interactions between different parts of the system when some parts have different versions are often difficult to predict, but in many situations, they are required. Large clusters with many users can’t afford to be offline for maintenance. The best way to attack complexity is to divide and conquer. Microservice architecture helps a lot here. You never upgrade your entire system. You just constantly upgrade several sets of related microservices, and if APIs have changed, then you upgrade their clients, too. A properly designed upgrade will preserve backward compatibility at least until all clients have been upgraded, and then deprecate old APIs across several releases.

In this section, we will discuss how to go about updating your cluster using various strategies, such as rolling updates, blue-green deployments, and canary deployments. We will...

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