Managing Kubernetes: Operating Kubernetes Clusters in the Real World

Kubernetes has greatly simplified the task of deploying containerized applications to the cloud, but if you want to get the most out of this open source orchestrator, you need a dedicated team to manage it on a day-to-day basis. This practical book shows Site Reliability Engineers and DevOps Leads how to build, operate, manage, and upgrade a Kubernetes cluster, whether you’re using cloud infrastructure or bare metal servers.

Brendan Burns, co-founder of the Kubernetes platform, and Craig Tracey, Solutions Engineer at Heptio, take you through initial deployment, architectural choices for designing a cluster, monitoring and alerting, managing access control, and upgrading Kubernetes. By diving deep into Kubernetes management, your organization can take full advantage of this orchestrator’s capabilities.

• Learn how your cluster operates, how developers use it to deploy applications, and how Kubernetes facilitates a developer’s job
• Adjust, secure, and tune your cluster by understanding Kubernetes’ APIs and configuration options
• Detect when things in the cluster break, and learn the steps necessary to respond and recover from these problems
• Determine how and when to add libraries, tools, and platforms that build on, extend, or otherwise improve the usage of a Kubernetes cluster

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. An overview of Kubernetes
Chapter 3. Kubernetes Architecture
Chapter 4. The Kubernetes API Server
Chapter 5. Scheduler
Chapter 6. Installing Kubernetes
Chapter 7. Authentication and User Management
Chapter 8. Authorization
Chapter 9. Admission Control
Chapter 10. Networking
Chapter 11. Monitoring Kubernetes
Chapter 12. Disaster Recovery
Chapter 13. Extending Kubernetes
Chapter 14. Conclusions