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50 Kubernetes Concepts Every DevOps Engineer Should Know by Michael Levan

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Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: First 20 Kubernetes Concepts – In and Out of the Cloud

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Kubernetes in Today’s World

Technical requirements

The shift to the cloud

Why organizations care about the cloud

What the cloud did for engineers

Kubernetes, the new cloud OS and data center

Kubernetes in the cloud

Why Kubernetes?

Kubernetes as a data center

Cloud-native apps and why they’re important

What cloud-native apps do for organizations

The world is cloud-based

Engineering talent is toward the cloud

Abstraction is easier, but with a twist

What abstraction does

What abstraction doesn’t do

Start slow and go fast

Understanding the engineering need for Kubernetes

Understanding the business need for Kubernetes

Planning is the hard part

Summary

Further ...

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