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The Kubernetes Book

The fastest way to get your head around Kubernetes

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Sep 2025
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Description

Understand the Kubernetes ecosystem and learn techniques to run fault-tolerant, scalable applications

Key Features

  • Gain insight into the inner workings of Kubernetes
  • Learn how to deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes
  • Explore ways to build and secure Kubernetes clusters

Book Description

Kubernetes is the leading orchestrator of cloud-native apps. With knowledge of how to work with Kubernetes, you can easily deploy and manage applications on the cloud or in your on-premises data center.

The book begins by introducing you to Kubernetes and showing you how to install it. You’ll learn how to use Kubernetes Services and bring stable and reliable networking to apps that are deployed on Kubernetes. You'll delve deep into the powerful storage subsystem of Kubernetes and learn how to leverage the variety of external storage backends in your applications. As the book progresses, it shows you how to use features such as DaemonSets, Helm, and RBAC to enhance your Kubernetes applications. You'll explore the six categories of identifying vulnerabilities and look at a few ways to prevent and mitigate them. You'll also look at ways to secure the software delivery pipeline by discussing some image-related best practices. The book ends by sharing with you some resources that’ll help take your Kubernetes knowledge to the next level.

By the end of the book, you’ll have the confidence and skills to leverage all the features of Kubernetes to develop scalable applications.

What you will learn

  • Explore cluster-level and node-level isolation and runtime isolation options
  • Use Kubernetes Deployments for self-healing, scaling, and updating apps
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters with kubectl
  • Write a Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin to work across multiple orchestrators
  • Use Kubernetes features such as Jons and CronJobs in your apps
  • Identify vulnerabilities and learn measures to prevent and mitigate them

Who this book is for

If you want to be more comfortable using Kubernetes to orchestrate your containerized applications, this is the ideal book for you. To easily grasp the concepts explained in this book, you must be familiar with Docker and containers.

Table of Contents

  1. Kubernetes Primer
  2. Kubernetes Principles of Operation
  3. Installing Kubernetes
  4. Working with Pods
  5. Kubernetes Deployments
  6. Kubernetes Services
  7. Kubernetes Storage
  8. Other Important Kubernetes Stuff
  9. Threat Modeling Kubernetes
  10. Real-World Kubernetes Security
  11. What Next
PDF ISBN: 978-1-83898-973-6
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2019 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 228
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Computer sciences, other

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