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O. YilmazExtending Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7095-0_6

6. Infrastructure Extensions

Onur Yilmaz1  
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Berlin, Germany
 

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

—Mark Zuckerberg

American entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Facebook

Kubernetes is the de facto container orchestration system for what it offers and also what it does not offer. Kubernetes comes with scalable and reliable container runtime management, but it leaves infrastructure-related decisions to the end users. It allows users to create their clusters on any infrastructure as long as it is compliant with APIs. This chapter will focus on extending the Kubernetes by changing the underlying ...

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