Kubernetes on AWS: Deploy and manage production-ready Kubernetes clusters on AWS

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Google's Infrastructure for the Rest of Us
	Why do I need a Kubernetes cluster?
		The roots of containers
		Enter the container
			Cgroups
			Namespaces
			Putting the pieces together
		Here, schedule this...
		The basics of Kubernetes
			The pod
		Labeling all the things
		Replica sets
		Services
	Under the hood
		API server
		Controller manager
		Scheduler
		Kubelet
	Summary
Chapter 2: Start Your Engines
	Your own Kubernetes
		Installation
			macOS
			Linux
			Windows
		Starting Minikube
		First steps with kubectl
		Building Docker containers inside the cluster
	Building and launching a simple application on Minikube
		What just happened?
			Rolling out changes
			Resilience and scaling
		Using the dashboard
		Configuration as code
		Troubleshooting Minikube
	Summary
Chapter 3: Reach for the Cloud
	Cluster architecture
	Creating an AWS account
		Creating an IAM user
		Getting the CLI
		Setting up a key pair
		Preparing the network
	Setting up a bastion
		sshuttle
	Instance profiles
	Kubernetes software
		Docker
	Installing Kubeadm
		Building an AMI
	Bootstrapping the cluster
		What just happened?
	Access the API from your workstation
	Setting up pod networking
	Launching worker nodes
	Demo time
	Summary
Chapter 4: Managing Change in Your Applications
	Running pods directly
	Jobs
	CronJob
		Cron syntax
		Concurrency policy
		History limits
	Managing long running processes with deployments
		kubectl patch
		kubectl edit
		kubectl apply
		Kubernetes dashboard
		Greater control of your deployments
		RollingUpdate deployment
		Recreate deployment
	DaemonSet
	Summary
Chapter 5: Managing Complex Applications with Helm
	Installing Helm
		macOS
		Linux and Windows
		Installing Tiller
		Installing a chart
	Configuring a chart
	Creating your own charts
		Chart.yaml
		values.yaml
		templates
		Making it your own
		Developing and debugging
		Templating language
		Functions
		Flow control
	Hooks
	Packaging Helm charts
		You can test building an index
		Using your repository
	Organizational patterns for Helm
		Chart per application
		Shared charts
		Library charts
	Next steps
Chapter 6: Planning for Production
	The design process
		Initial planning
		Planning for success
		Planning for a successful roll out
	Discovering requirements
	Availability
	Capacity
		EC2 instance types
			EC2 instance types
			Breadth versus depth
	Performance
		Disk performance
			gp2
			io2
			st1
			sc1
		Networking
	Security
		Always be updating
			In-place updates
			Immutable images
		Network security
			Infra-node networking
		Node-master networking
			External networking
			Kubernetes infra-pod networking
		IAM roles
		Validation
	Observability
		Logging
		Monitoring
		Blackbox monitoring
		Alerting
		Tracing
	Summary
Chapter 7: A Production-Ready Cluster
	Building a cluster
	Getting started with Terraform
		Variables
		Networking
		Plan and apply
	Control Plane
	Preparing node images
		Installing Packer
		Packer configuration
	Node group
	Provisioning add-ons
	Managing change
	Summary
Chapter 8: Sorry My App Ate the Cluster
	Resource requests and limits
		Resource units
		How pods with resource limits are managed
		Quality of Service (QoS)
		Resource quotas
		Default limits
	Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
		Deploying the metrics server
		Verifying the metrics server and troubleshooting
		Autoscaling pods based on CPU usage
		Autoscaling pods based on other metrics
		Autoscaling the cluster
		Deploying the cluster autoscaler
	Summary
Chapter 9: Storing State
	Volumes
		EBS volumes
		Persistent volumes
			Persistent volumes example
	Storage classes
	StatefulSet
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 10: Managing Container Images
	Pushing Docker images to ECR
		Creating a repository
		Pushing and pulling images from your workstation
		Setting up privileges for pushing images
		Use images stored on ECR in Kubernetes
	Tagging images
		Version Control System (VCS) references
		Semantic versions
		Upstream version numbers
	Labelling images
	Summary
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