Kubernetes in Action

Chapter 2. First steps with Docker and Kubernetes

This chapter covers

• Creating, running, and sharing a container image with Docker
• Running a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally
• Setting up a Kubernetes cluster on Google Kubernetes Engine
• Setting up and using the kubectl command-line client
• Deploying an app on Kubernetes and scaling it horizontally

Before you start learning about Kubernetes concepts in detail, let’s see how to create a simple application, package it into a container image, and run it in a managed Kubernetes cluster (in Google Kubernetes Engine) or in a local single-node cluster. This should give you a slightly better overview of the whole Kubernetes system and will make it easier to follow the next few chapters, where we’ll ...