Chapter 11: Configuring Applications to Use Kubernetes Features

1. The general principle of namespaces is providing resource quotas and a scope for object names. You will organize the namespaces depending on the size of your cluster and your team.
2. The readiness probe is used to determine whether a given container is ready to accept traffic. The liveness probe is used to detect whether a container needs to be restarted.
3. The wrong configuration of this probe can result in cascading failures in your services and container restart loops.
4. requests specifies the guaranteed amount of a given resource provided by the system. limits specifies the maximum amount of a given resource provided by the system.
5. Avoiding thrashing (replica count fluctuating frequently).
6. ConfigMaps and Secrets can hold technically any type of data consisting of key-value pairs. The purpose of Secrets is keeping sensitive...