Advanced Kubernetes: Traffic Management, Multi-Cluster Strategies, and More

Advanced topics in Kubernetes, beyond those covered in the earlier parts of this book, will be discussed in this final chapter. We will start by looking into the advanced use of Ingress for some really sophisticated routing to your Pods, followed by effective methodologies for troubleshooting Kubernetes and hardening Kubernetes security, as well as best practices for optimizing a Kubernetes setup.

This final chapter will introduce you to advanced Kubernetes traffic routing in Kubernetes using Ingress resources. In a nutshell, Ingress allows exposing your Pods running behind a Service object to the external world using HTTP and HTTPS routes. So far, we have introduced ways to expose your application using Service objects directly, especially the LoadBalancer Service. But this approach only works well in cloud environments where you have the cloud-controller-manager running. It works by configuring external...