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O. YilmazExtending Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7095-0_1

1. Introduction

Onur Yilmaz1  
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Berlin, Germany
 

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

—Carl Sandburg

American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor with three Pulitzer Prizes

Kubernetes is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep, check your YAML file, and read more documentation.

Kubernetes is a complex system. This first chapter will start with a short history of Kubernetes and how it has grown to a complex system. Although it already has many layers, it is also extensible with additional layers. This ...

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