Implementing Modern DevOps

Other Building Blocks

In the previous sections, you learned the basics needed to deploy applications into Kubernetes successfully. The API objects that we visited are as follows:

• Pod
• ReplicaSet
• Deployment
• Service

In Kubernetes, there are many other building blocks that can be used to build more advanced applications; every few months, the Kubernetes engineers add new elements to improve or add functionality.

One example of these additions is the ReplicaSet that was designed to replace another item called ReplicationController. The main difference between the ReplicationController and the ReplicaSet is that the latter one has a more advance semantics label selection for the Pods that were recently re-engineered in Kubernetes.

As a new product, ...