Kubernetes in the Enterprise

Preface

Kubernetes is a cloud infrastructure that provides for the deployment and orchestration of containerized applications. The Kubernetes project is supported by a very active open source community that continues to experience explosive growth. With support from all the major vendors and the myriad contributors of all sizes, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard for cloud-native computing applications.

Although Kubernetes has the potential to dramatically improve the creation and deployment of cloud-native applications in the enterprise, getting started with it in enterprise environments can be difficult. This book is targeted toward developers and operators who are looking to use Kubernetes as their primary approach for creating, managing, deploying, and operating their container-based cloud-native computing applications.

The book is structured so that developers and operators who are new to Kubernetes can use it to gain a solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamental concepts. In addition, for experienced practitioners who already have a significant understanding of Kubernetes, this book provides several chapters focused on the creation of enterprise-quality Kubernetes applications in private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. It also brings developers and operators up to speed on key aspects of production-level cloud-native enterprise applications such as continuous delivery, log collection and analysis, security, scheduling, autoscaling, networking, ...