Description

Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestrator but many organizations that have recently adopted this system are still struggling to run actual production workloads In this practical book four software engineers from VMware bring their shared experiences running Kubernetes in production and provide insight on key challenges and best practices

The brilliance of Kubernetes is how configurable and extensible the system is from pluggable runtimes to storage integrations For platform engineers software developers infosec network engineers storage engineers and others this book examines how the path to success with Kubernetes involves a variety of technology pattern and abstraction considerations With this book you will

Understand what the path to production looks like when using Kubernetes

Examine where gaps exist in your current Kubernetes strategy

Learn Kubernetess essential building blocksand their tradeoffs

Understand whats involved in making Kubernetes a viable location for applications

Learn better ways to navigate the cloud native landscape