Extending Kubernetes: Elevate Kubernetes with Extension Patterns, Operators, and Plugins

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O. YilmazExtending Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7095-0_4

4. Extending the Kubernetes API

Onur Yilmaz¹  

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Berlin, Germany

 

When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.

—Benjamin “Ben” Solomon Carson

Neurosurgeon, American politician, and author

Kubernetes API is the brain of the cloud-native container management system; it makes you feel admiration, respect, and amazement at the same time. It is a complex API with multiple layers, various resources, and, fortunately, two extension points. This chapter will focus on extending the Kubernetes API by creating custom resources and API aggregation. At the end of this chapter, you will be ...