Kubernetes Best Practices

Chapter 18. Conclusion

The primary strength of Kubernetes is its modularity and generality. Nearly every kind of application that you might want to deploy you can fit within Kubernetes, and no matter what kind of adjustments or tuning you need to make to your system, they’re generally possible.

Of course, this modularity and generality come at a cost, and that cost is a reasonable amount of complexity. Understanding how the APIs and components of Kubernetes work is critical to successfully unlocking the power of Kubernetes to make your application development, management, and deployment easier and more reliable.

Likewise, understanding how to link Kubernetes up with a wide variety of external systems and practices as varied as an on-premises database and a Continuous Delivery system is critical to efficiently making use of Kubernetes in the real world.

Throughout this book we have worked to provide concrete real-world experience on specific topics that you will likely encounter whether you are a newcomer to Kubernetes or an experienced administrator. Regardless of whether you are facing a new area in which you need to become an expert, or you simply want a refresher about how others have addressed a familiar problem, hopefully, the chapters in this book have enabled you to learn from our experience. We also hope that in this learning, you gain the skills and confidence to use Kubernetes to its fullest capabilities. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you out in the real world! ...