You're reading from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Solutions Architects A practical guide to effectively designing enterprise-grade solutions with OCI services

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566460

Length 336 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Oracle Cloud Services

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Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Prasenjit Sarkar

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Core Concepts of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Identity and Access Management

4. Chapter 3: Designing a Network on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

5. Chapter 4: Compute Choices on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

6. Chapter 5: Understanding Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Options

7. Section 2: Understanding the Additional Layers of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

8. Chapter 6: Understanding Database Choices on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

9. Chapter 7: Building a Cloud-Native Application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

10. Chapter 8: Running a Serverless Application on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

11. Chapter 9: Managing Infrastructure as Code on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

12. Chapter 10: Interacting with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Using the CLI/API/SDK

13. Chapter 11: Building a Hybrid Cloud on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

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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: