May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
554 pages
13h 51m
English
Content preview from Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition
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Using AWS as Kubernetes Cloud Provider
From Kubernetes 1.6, Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) was introduced, which defines a set of interfaces so that different cloud providers could evolve their own implementations out of the Kubernetes release cycle. Talking to the cloud providers, you can't ignore the biggest player: Amazon Web Service. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, in 2017, 63% of Kubernetes workloads run on AWS. AWS CloudProvider supports Service as Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) as StorageClass.
At the time this book was written, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) was under preview, which is a hosted Kubernetes service in AWS. Ideally, it'll have better ...