April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
6h 6m
English
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Chapter 22. Controller
A Controller actively monitors and maintains a set of Kubernetes resources in a desired state. The heart of Kubernetes itself consists of a fleet of controllers that regularly watch and reconcile the current state of applications with the declared target state. In this chapter, we see how to leverage this core concept for extending the platform for our needs.
Problem
You already have seen that Kubernetes is a sophisticated and comprehensive platform that provides many features out of the box. However, it is a general-purpose orchestration platform that does not cover all application use cases. Luckily, it provides natural extension points where specific use cases can be implemented elegantly on top of proven Kubernetes building blocks.
The main question that arises here is about how to extend Kubernetes without changing and breaking it, and how to use its capabilities for custom use cases.
By design, Kubernetes is based on a declarative resource-centric API. What exactly do we mean by declarative? As opposed to an imperative approach, a declarative approach does not tell Kubernetes how it should act, but instead describes how the target state should look. For example, when we scale up a Deployment, we do not actively create new Pods by telling Kubernetes to “create a new Pod.” Instead, we change the Deployment resource’s replicas property via the Kubernetes API to the desired number.
So, how are the new Pods created? This is done internally by the Controllers ...
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