Название: Production Kubernetes: Building Successful Application Platforms (Second Early Release)
Автор: Josh Rosso, Rich Lander, Alex Brand
Издательство: O’Reilly Media
Год: 2021-01-25
Страниц: 501
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 33.1 MB

Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestrator, but many organizations that have recently adopted this system are still struggling to run actual production workloads. In this practical book, four software engineers from VMware bring their shared experiences running Kubernetes in production and provide insight on key challenges and best practices.

The brilliance of Kubernetes is how configurable and extensible the system is, from pluggable runtimes to storage integrations. For platform engineers, software developers, infosec, network engineers, storage engineers, and others, this book examines how the path to success with Kubernetes involves a variety of technology, pattern, and abstraction considerations.

Kubernetes is a remarkably powerful technology and has achieved a meteoric rise in popularity. It has formed the basis for genuine advances in the way we manage software deployments. API-driven software and distributed systems were well established, if not widely adopted, when Kubernetes emerged. It delivered excellent renditions of these principles which are foundational to its success, but it also delivered something else that is vital. In the recent past, software that autonomously converged on declared, desired state was only possible in giant technology companies with the most talented engineering teams. Now, highly available, self-healing, autoscaling software deployments are within reach of every organization thanks to the Kubernetes project. There is a future in front of us where software systems accept broad, high-level directives from us and execute upon them to deliver desired outcomes by discovering conditions, navigating changing obstacles and repairing problems without our intervention. Furthermore, they will do it faster and more reliably than we ever could with manual operations.

With this book, you will:

Understand what the path to production looks like when using Kubernetes
Examine where gaps exist in your current Kubernetes strategy
Learn Kubernetes's essential building blocks--and their trade-offs
Understand what's involved in making Kubernetes a viable location for applications
Learn better ways to navigate the cloud native landscape