Modern DevOps Practices - Second Edition

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Container Orchestration with Kubernetes

In the previous chapter, we covered creating and managing container images, where we discussed container images, Dockerfiles, and their directives and components. We also looked at the best practices for writing a Dockerfile and building and managing efficient images. We then looked at flattening Docker images and investigated in detail distroless images to improve container security. Finally, we created a private Docker registry.

Now, we will deep dive into container orchestration. We will learn how to schedule and run containers using the most popular container orchestrator – Kubernetes.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

• What is Kubernetes, and why do I need it?
• Kubernetes ...