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Mastering Kubernetes, - Third Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Kubernetes, - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839211256
Pages 642 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
Profile icon Gigi Sayfan

Table of Contents (19) 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 Advanced Networking 11. Running Kubernetes on Multiple Clouds and Cluster Federation 12. Serverless Computing on Kubernetes 13. Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters 14. Utilizing Service Meshes 15. Extending Kubernetes 16. The Future of Kubernetes 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Knative

Kubernetes doesn't have built-in support for FaaS. As a result, many solutions were developed by the community for the ecosystem. The goal of Knative is to provide building blocks that multiple FaaS solutions can utilize without reinventing the wheel.

But that's not all! Knative also offers the unique capability of scaling long-running services all the way down to zero. This is a big deal. There are many use cases where you may prefer to have a long-running service that can handle a lot of requests coming its way in rapid succession. In those situations, it is not the best approach to fire a new function instance per request. But, when there is no traffic coming in, it's great to scale the service to zero instances, pay nothing, and leave more capacity for other services that may need more resources at that time. Knative supports other important use cases including load balancing based on percentages, load balancing based on metrics, blue-green deployments...

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