appendix E Docker and Kubernetes
Kubernetes is the predominant open source cluster management and orchestration platform, and some examples in this chapter involve running API service and API gateway containers in Kubernetes using minikube. An in-depth explanation of Kubernetes is beyond the scope of this book, but I provide a brief introduction to it in this appendix. If you’re familiar with Kubernetes, you can skip this.
E.1 Introducing Docker
Docker is an open platform that uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in standardized units called containers that have everything the software needs to run. A container image is a static file that includes code, system tools, system libraries, and settings required to create a container ...
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