Kubernetes in Production Best Practices: Build and manage highly available production-ready Kubernetes clusters

by Aly Saleh, Murat Karslioglu

Design, build, and operate scalable and reliable Kubernetes infrastructure for production Although out-of-the-box solutions can help you to get a cluster up and running quickly, running a Kubernetes cluster that is optimized for production workloads is a challenge, especially for users with basic or intermediate knowledge. With detailed coverage of cloud industry standards and best practices for achieving scalability, availability, operational excellence, and cost optimization, this Kubernetes book is a blueprint for managing applications and services in production. You'll discover the most common way to deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters, which is to use a public cloud-managed service from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This book explores Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), the AWS-managed version of Kubernetes, for working through practical exercises. As you get to grips with implementation details specific to AWS and EKS, you'll understand the design concepts, implementation best practices, and configuration applicable to other cloud-managed services. Throughout the book, you'll also discover standard and cloud-agnostic tools, such as Terraform and Ansible, for provisioning and configuring infrastructure. By the end of this book, you'll be able to leverage Kubernetes to operate and manage your production environments confidently. This book is for cloud infrastructure experts, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, and engineering managers looking to design and operate Kubernetes infrastructure for production. Basic knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Linux, and AWS is needed to get the most out of this book.

Genres: Computer Science

292 pages, Paperback

Published March 12, 2021

Reviews

[Karol Szczepański · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have so much mixed feelings about this book.

On one hand it touches upon all the important tools that are needed to create successful Kubernetes platforms and establishes a short baseline around all the best practices.

But on the other I felt like this book tries to talk about everything so generally it does not manage to talk about everything too well. I feel like this book should be titled "How to setup cluster on EKS with essential tooling". Reading this book is kind of like reading a tutorial not a book. The author gives you steps and code for setting up everything while not explaining much along the way. A lot of the book is spent explaining Terraform/Ansible code and not Kubernetes. Also, most of the book is only relevant to AWS and not the other cloud providers.

If you are looking at this book for the purpose of getting a quick up and running production cluster on AWS then you are at the right place.
If you are looking for deep technical knowledge about how things work in the background and how to make informed decisions, look somewhere else.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremally detailed and useful for platform engineers.
Too much for application developers.