Осваиваем Kubernetes. Оркестрация контейнерных архитектур

by Gigi Sayfan

В книге рассмотрена новейшая версия Kubernetes 1.10.
Kubernetes – это система с открытым кодом, предназначенная для работы с контейнерными приложениями, их развертывания, масштабирования, управления ими. Если вы хотите запустить дополнительные контейнеры или автоматизировать управление, то вам не обойтись без Kubernetes.
Книга начинается с изучения основ Kubernetes, архитектуры и компоновки этой системы. Вы научитесь создавать микросервисы с сохранением состояния, ознакомитесь с такими продвинутыми возможностями, как горизонтальное автомасштабирование подов, выкатывание обновлений, квотирование ресурсов, обустроите долговременное хранилище на бэкенде. На реальных примерах вы исследуете возможности сетевой конфигурации, подключение и настройку плагинов. Эта книга поможет вам стать искусным дирижером и обращаться с контейнерными системами любой сложности.

Genres: Technology, Nonfiction, Computer Science

400 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Anton Antonov · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mastering Kubernetes is an all-directions guide to Kubernetes.

It's very rich in covering a broad range of aspects of Kubernetes - from overview, architecture, setup in different platforms, cluster hardening, CNI, writing your own plugins for networking or extending the k8s apiserver with custom resource definitions.

However with all those topics in mind, the book is very limited to what it can really cover with "mastering" and what with just a standard "up and running"-level of coverage.

In just ~430 pages the topics that are in my opinion, "mastery"-worthy are:

* architecture,
* setup in different platforms - although this is a stretch,
* security - although secrets without encryptions are just base64 text,
* CNI - there's an attempt to guide you where to start with writing your own CNI plugin, but nowadays the links that are mentioned, are dead.
* running a k8s federation,
* extending the k8s api server with custom resource definitions - however the `ThirdPartyResource` mentioned here is nowadays deprecated, but migration is covered in https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/acce...


Overall this is a very good book, but it needs to cover more content and be "mastery"-worthy in each topic part. Let's hope if there's a 2nd edition, it'll do better cause this here has potential.

[Eugene Bosiakov · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are zero reasons to compete with Kubernetes documentation. The official site is well-written and, by definition, is always up-to-date.

The book is trying to give a high-level understanding, but it falls into ambitious terms or too specific details in practice.

Networking and persistence are the most complex Kubernetes topics. This reading covers them in a confused manner and only made my understanding worse.

My recommendation: if you are a beginner, listen to Kubernetes authors' videos on YouTube and then start reading the official documentation.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

An adequate tutorial-in-a-book for Kubernetes. As with many Packt offerings, I would argue that the material typically remains too high-level to be "mastering" a topic and the book feels a bit padded. But, again, if you don't know Kubernetes this will give you a decent starting point - but you will have to read the official docs at some point.

[Jakub · Rating 1 out of 5]

It started ok, but that was it. After each chapter I was puzzled - that’s it? What was a meaning of it? Was the idea cut in half?

I wasted just my time :(

[Ilian Kostadinov · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's seems like a book written from pearson which doesn't have experience with teaching. Book contain a lot bla bla things. Important things are not well explained. You can receive a brief impression what kubernetes is, but not master it.

[David Zhang · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is plenty of theory. It'll be better if more practice included :)

[Ralf Pieper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably beyond what most people are setting up, but I might be able to make use of this in my next role. Book has examples and you can build along side.

[Bjørn Remseth]

It's ok. It's directly to the point and covers the highlights. It's what I wanted. Easily absorbed :-)