© Deepak Vohra 2017

Deepak Vohra, Kubernetes Management Design Patterns, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2598-1_1

1. Kubernetes on AWS

Deepak Vohra1 

(1)White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

Kubernetes is a cluster manager for Docker (and rkt) containers. The Introduction outlines its basic architecture and relationship to CoreOS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) . In this chapter we’ll spin up a basic cluster without configuration.

Note

Kubernetes Microservices with Docker (Apress, 2016) covers installing Kubernetes on single-node and multi-node clusters.

Problem

Installing Kubernetes by installing its individual components (Docker, Flannel, Kubelet, and Service Proxy) separately is an involved process that requires many commands to be run and files to be configured. ...

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