Getting Started With Kubernetes
Chapter 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals
What is Container Orchestration
Kubernetes Architecture: The Control Plane
Kubernetes Architecture: The Worker Node
The Role of kubectl
Declarative vs. Imperative Management
Setting Up a Local Kubernetes Cluster
Hands-on Practical: Cluster Inspection
Chapter 2: Managing Pods
The Pod Abstraction
Writing a Pod Manifest in YAML
Single-Container and Multi-Container Pods
The Pod Lifecycle
Using kubectl for Pod Operations
Health Probes: Liveness and Readiness
Practice: Deploying and Inspecting Pods
Chapter 3: Workload Management with Controllers
Introduction to Kubernetes Controllers
ReplicaSets for Pod Availability
Deployments for Application Rollouts
Defining a Deployment Manifest
Executing Deployment Updates and Rollbacks
Inspecting Deployment Status
Hands-on Practical: Creating and Updating Deployments
Chapter 4: Networking in Kubernetes
The Kubernetes Networking Model
Introduction to Services
Service Types: ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer
Defining a Service Manifest
Service Discovery within the Cluster
Exposing Services with Ingress
Hands-on Practical: Exposing an Application
Chapter 5: Configuration and Persistent Storage
Managing Configuration with ConfigMaps
Handling Credentials with Secrets
Kubernetes Storage Concepts
PersistentVolumes and PersistentVolumeClaims
Attaching Volumes to Pods
Practice: Injecting Configuration and Mounting a Volume
What is Container Orchestration
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- Kubernetes Concepts, Kubernetes Authors, 2020 - The official documentation provides comprehensive explanations of Kubernetes core concepts, architecture, and how it addresses challenges like scheduling, self-healing, scaling, and networking in distributed applications.
- Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg, Abhishek Verma, Luis Pedrosa, Madhukar Korupolu, David Oppenheimer, Eric Tune, and John Wilkes, 2015 Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '15) (ACM) DOI: 10.1145/2741948.2741964 - This seminal paper describes Google's Borg system, a foundational predecessor to Kubernetes, illustrating the challenges and solutions for large-scale container orchestration.