What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Kubernetes, is a brief overview of containers and the how, what, and why of Kubernetes orchestration, exploring how it impacts your business goals and everyday operations.

Chapter 2, Pods, Services, Replication Controllers, and Labels, uses a few simple examples to explore core Kubernetes constructs, namely pods, services, replication controllers, replica sets, and labels. Basic operations including health checks and scheduling will also be covered.

Chapter 3, Networking, Load Balancers, and Ingress, covers cluster networking for Kubernetes and the Kubernetes proxy. It also takes a deeper dive into services, finishing up, it shows a brief overview of some higher level isolation features for mutli-tenancy.

Chapter 4, Updates, Gradual Rollouts, and Autoscaling, is a quick look at how to roll out updates and new features with minimal disruption to uptime. We will also look at scaling for applications and the Kubernetes cluster.

Chapter 5, Deployments, Jobs, and DaemonSets, covers both long-running application deployments as well as short-lived jobs. We will also look at using DaemonSets to run containers on all or subsets of nodes in the cluster.

Chapter 6, Storage and Running Stateful Applications, covers storage concerns and persistent data across pods and the container life cycle. We will also look at new constructs for working with stateful application in Kubernetes.

Chapter 7, Continuous Delivery, explains how to integrate Kubernetes into your continuous delivery pipeline. We will see how to use a k8s cluster with Gulp.js and Jenkins as well.

Chapter 8, Monitoring and Logging, teaches how to use and customize built-in and third-party monitoring tools on your Kubernetes cluster. We will look at built-in logging and monitoring, the Google Cloud Monitoring/Logging service, and Sysdig.

Chapter 9, Cluster Federation, enables you to try out the new federation capabilities and explains how to use them to manage multiple clusters across cloud providers. We will also cover the federated version of the core constructs from previous chapters.

Chapter 10, Container Security, teaches the basics of container security from the container runtime level to the host itself. It also explains how to apply these concepts to running containers and some of the security concerns and practices that relate specifically to running Kubernetes.

Chapter 11, Extending Kubernetes with OCP, CoreOS, and Tectonic, discovers how open standards benefit the entire container ecosystem. We’ll look at a few of the prominent standards organizations and cover CoreOS and Tectonic, exploring their advantages as a host OS and enterprise platform.

Chapter 12, Towards Production Ready, the final chapter, shows some of the helpful tools and third-party projects that are available and where you can go to get more help.