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Getting Started with Kubernetes, Second Edition

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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787283367

Length 286 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Jonathan Baier

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Introduction to Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER

2. Pods, Services, Replication Controllers, and Labels

3. Networking, Load Balancers, and Ingress

4. Updates, Gradual Rollouts, and Autoscaling

5. Deployments, Jobs, and DaemonSets

6. Storage and Running Stateful Applications

7. Continuous Delivery

8. Monitoring and Logging

9. Cluster Federation

10. Container Security

11. Extending Kubernetes with OCP, CoreOS, and Tectonic

12. Towards Production Ready

Chapter 11. Extending Kubernetes with OCP, CoreOS, and Tectonic

The first half of this chapter will cover how open standards encourage a diverse ecosystem of container implementations. We'll look at the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and its mission to provide an open container specification as well. The second half of this chapter will cover CoreOS and its advantages as a host OS, including performance and support for various container implementations. Also, we'll take a brief look at the Tectonic enterprise offering from CoreOS.

This chapter will discuss the following topics:

Why standards matter?
The Open Container Initiative and Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Container specifications versus implementations
CoreOS and its advantages
Tectonic

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Authors (1)

Jonathan Baier

Jonathan Baier

Jonathan Baier is an emerging technology leader living in Brooklyn, New York. He has had a passion for technology since an early age. When he was 14 years old, he was so interested in the family computer (an IBM PCjr) that he pored over the several hundred pages of BASIC and DOS manuals. Then, he taught himself to code a very poorly-written version of Tic-Tac-Toe. During his teenage years, he started a computer support business. Throughout his life, he has dabbled in entrepreneurship. He currently works as Senior Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations for Moody's corporation in New York.

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