January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
16h 56m
English
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Building, Packaging, and Deploying Software
"Kubernetes is the Linux of distributed systems."
– Kelsey Hightower
This chapter will guide you through the steps involved in dockerizing Go programs and will iterate the best practices for building the smallest possible container image for your applications. Following this, this chapter will focus on Kubernetes.
We'll begin our tour of Kubernetes by comparing the different types of nodes that comprise a Kubernetes cluster and take a closer look at the function of the various services that make up Kubernetes' control plane. Moving forward, we will be describing a step-by-step walkthrough for setting up a Kubernetes cluster on your local development machine. The last part of this chapter is a practical ...