Becoming Cloudy with Kubernetes - Burr Sutter

Automation Devops

Explore the powerful capabilities of Kubernetes, a game-changing tool for cloud-native applications, and learn how to automate workflows, scale efficiently, and manage resources in a self-service, elastic infrastructure.

Key takeaways

Kubernetes is a game changer for cloud-native applications, providing a self-service, elastic infrastructure that can be scaled up or down.
Kubernetes can be used to deploy any container image and provide rolling updates for free.
The control plane is the central API endpoint for interacting with Kubernetes.
Kubernetes uses a declarative configuration style, where you declare what you want to happen and the system figures out how to make it happen.
Pipelines are a powerful way to automate workflows in Kubernetes, allowing you to define a sequence of tasks to run in a specific order.
Tekton is a pipeline implementation that can be used inside a Kubernetes cluster.
The kubectl command is used to interact with the Kubernetes cluster.
Load balancing and service discovery are built-in to Kubernetes, providing high availability and scalability for applications.
Kubernetes provides a powerful scheduling system that can be used to automatically deploy and manage applications.
Namespaces provide a way to isolate applications and resources within a Kubernetes cluster.
The Deployment object is used to define a replica set, which can be scaled up or down.
The Service object is used to provide load balancing and service discovery for applications.
Persistent volumes provide a way to persist data even when a pod is deleted.
Labels provide a way to organize and select resources within a Kubernetes cluster.
The CronJob object is used to schedule batch jobs to run at specific times.
The Job object is used to run a single batch job.
Kubernetes provides a built-in logging system that can be used to monitor application activity.
Kubernetes provides a built-in dashboard that can be used to monitor and manage the cluster.
The kubectl command has many other features and options beyond what is listed here.
Kubernetes provides a powerful and flexible infrastructure for deploying and managing cloud-native applications.
Kubernetes can be used to automate many DevOps tasks, such as continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Becoming Cloudy with Kubernetes - Burr Sutter

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