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Published inOct 2021
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Prasenjit Sarkar
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Prasenjit Sarkar

Prasenjit Sarkar is a product manager at Oracle for their public cloud, with a focus on cloud strategy, Oracle Ravello, cloud-native applications, and the API platform. His primary focus is driving Oracle's cloud computing business with commercial and public sector customers, helping to shape and deliver a strategy to build broad use of Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service offerings, such as Compute, Storage, and Database as a Service. He is also responsible for developing public/private cloud integration strategies, customers' cloud computing architecture visions, future state architectures, and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of the public, private, and hybrid cloud computing solutions that Oracle can offer. He has also authored six industry-leading books on virtualization, SDN, and physical compute, among others. He has six successful patents and six more patents pending at the US PTO. He has also authored numerous research articles.
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Deploying microservices on OKE

Before we deep dive into Oracle's managed Kubernetes offering, let's provide a short introduction to Kubernetes itself. Learning about Kubernetes is a huge topic. This chapter will not cover all the aspects of Kubernetes; it will only focus on the key concepts and how OCI's managed Kubernetes service works.

Getting started with Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source project that's maintained by a community of developers and was created to solve container orchestration problems. By its very nature, Kubernetes is highly available and forms a single cluster unit. Kubernetes allows you to deploy and run your application in the form of disjoined/distributed software services, without pinning it to run on a specific computer.

You can manage your cluster through a web UI or through a CLI (kubectl). A Kubernetes cluster has two types of resources, as follows:

  • A master node, which is responsible for managing the state of the...
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Prasenjit Sarkar

Prasenjit Sarkar is a product manager at Oracle for their public cloud, with a focus on cloud strategy, Oracle Ravello, cloud-native applications, and the API platform. His primary focus is driving Oracle's cloud computing business with commercial and public sector customers, helping to shape and deliver a strategy to build broad use of Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service offerings, such as Compute, Storage, and Database as a Service. He is also responsible for developing public/private cloud integration strategies, customers' cloud computing architecture visions, future state architectures, and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of the public, private, and hybrid cloud computing solutions that Oracle can offer. He has also authored six industry-leading books on virtualization, SDN, and physical compute, among others. He has six successful patents and six more patents pending at the US PTO. He has also authored numerous research articles.
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