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Kubernetes in Action
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Kubernetes in Action

by Marko Luksa
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
624 pages
19h 23m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 11. Understanding Kubernetes internals

This chapter covers

  • What components make up a Kubernetes cluster
  • What each component does and how it does it
  • How creating a Deployment object results in a running pod
  • What a running pod is
  • How the network between pods works
  • How Kubernetes Services work
  • How high-availability is achieved

By reading this book up to this point, you’ve become familiar with what Kubernetes has to offer and what it does. But so far, I’ve intentionally not spent much time explaining exactly how it does all this because, in my opinion, it makes no sense to go into details of how a system works until you have a good understanding of what the system does. That’s why we haven’t talked about exactly how a pod is scheduled ...

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