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DevOps with Kubernetes

You're reading from   DevOps with Kubernetes Accelerating software delivery with container orchestrators

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788396646
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee
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Hideto Saito Hideto Saito
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Cheng-Yang Wu Cheng-Yang Wu
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Understanding Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a platform for managing application containers across multiple hosts. It provides lots of management features for container-oriented applications, such as auto scaling, rolling deployment, compute resource, and volume management. Same as the nature of containers, it's designed to run anywhere, so we're able to run it on a bare metal, in our data center, on the public cloud, or even hybrid cloud.

Kubernetes considers most of the operational needs for application containers. The highlights are:

  • Container deployment
  • Persistent storage
  • Container health monitoring
  • Compute resource management
  • Auto-scaling
  • High availability by cluster federation

Kubernetes is a perfect match for microservices. With Kubernetes, we can create a Deployment to rollout, rollover, or roll back selected containers (Chapter 7, Continous Delivery). Containers...

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