What this book covers

Chapter 1, Google's Infrastructure for the Rest of Us, helps you understand how Kubernetes can give you some of the same superpowers that the site reliability engineers at Google use to ensure that Google's services are resilient, reliable, and efficient.

Chapter 2, Start Your Engines, helps you take your first steps with Kubernetes. You will learn how to start a cluster suitable for learning and development use on your own workstation, and will begin to learn how to use Kubernetes itself.

Chapter 3, Reach for the Cloud, teaches you how to build a Kubernetes cluster running on AWS from first principles.

Chapter 4, Managing Change in Your Applications, gets into depth with tools that Kubernetes provide to manage the Pods that you run on your cluster.

Chapter 5, Managing Complex Applications with Helm, teaches you about how you can deploy a service to your cluster using a community-maintained chart.

Chapter 6, Planning for Production, gives you an idea of the myriad different options and decisions you can make when deciding to run Kubernetes in a production environment.

Chapter 7,  A Production-Ready Cluster, helps you build a fully functional cluster that will serve as a base configuration to build upon for many different use cases.

Chapter 8, Sorry My App Ate the Cluster, delves into configuring pods with a different quality of service so important workloads are guaranteed the resources they need, but less important workloads can make use of idle resources when they are available without needing dedicated resources.

Chapter 9, Storing State, is all about using the deep integration that Kubernetes has with the AWS native storage solution Elastic Block Store (EBS).

Chapter 10, Managing Container Images, helps you understand how to leverage the AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) service to store your container images in a manner that tackles all these needs.

Chapter 11, Monitoring and Logging, teaches you how to set up a log management pipeline, and will help you understand some of the pitfalls and potential issues with logs. By the end of the chapter, you will have set up a metrics and alerting system. For this chapter refer to https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Monitoring_and_Logging.pdf.

Chapter 12, Best Practices of Security, teaches you how to manage a secure network for your Kubernetes cluster using both AWS and Kubernetes networking primitives. You will also learn how to keep your host operating systems secured. For this chapter refer to https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Best_Practices_of_Security.pdf.