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The Book of Kubernetes
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The Book of Kubernetes

by Alan Hohn
September 2022
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 13m
English
No Starch Press
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11CONTROL PLANE AND ACCESS CONTROL

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The control plane manages the Kubernetes cluster, storing the desired state of applications, monitoring the current state to detect and recover from any issues, scheduling new containers, and configuring network routing. In this chapter, we’ll look closely at the API server, the primary interface for the control plane and the entry point for any status retrieval and changes made to the entire cluster.

Although we will focus on the API server, the control plane includes multiple other services, each with a role to play. The other control plane services act as clients to the API server, watching cluster changes ...

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