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The KCNA Book
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The KCNA Book

by Nigel Poulton
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
197 pages
4h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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1: Setting the scene

This chapter doesn’t map directly to an exam objective. However, the things you’ll learn are in the exam and are important in setting the scene for why we have technologies like containers and Kubernetes. If you already know this, you can skip to the next chapter. Otherwise, stick around while we set the scene for the rest of the book.

We’ll cover all of the following at a high level.

  • Virtualisation
  • Containerisation
  • The transition from monolithic apps to microservices

Don’t worry if you think we’re not covering things in enough detail. This is just an introductory chapter and we’ll get into the detail in later chapters.

Virtualisation

In the distant past we deployed one application per physical server. This was a huge ...

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