3: Container orchestration

This chapter covers everything you’ll need to pass the Container orchestration section of the exam. The topics account for 22% of the exam and build on what you learned in the previous chapter. They also and provide a foundation for the topics covered in upcoming chapters.

The chapter is divided as follows.

  • Primer
  • Container runtimes
  • Container orchestration fundamentals
  • Container security
  • Container networking
  • Service meshes
  • Container storage
  • Exam essentials
  • Recap questions

Primer

Containers are similar to virtual machines – both allow you to run multiple applications on a single physical server. However, there are important differences.

At a high level, containers are more lightweight than virtual machines. This ...

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