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Kubernetes: Orchestrating Containers at Scale

by Shriira Press

Docker runs a container on one machine; Kubernetes runs thousands across many — scheduling, healing, scaling, and exposing them automatically. This free, example-driven book teaches it from the ground up: why orchestration, the control-plane-and-nodes architecture, kubectl and a local cluster, Pods, Deployments for running and scaling, Services and networking, ConfigMaps and Secrets, persistent storage, Ingress for external traffic, and health probes, autoscaling, and Helm for production. Ten focused chapters with real manifests and clear diagrams. (Knowing Docker first helps.) Learn the system that runs cloud-native software the world over.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — What Kubernetes Is and Why Orchestration
3. 3Chapter 2 — Architecture: Control Plane and Nodes
4. 4Chapter 3 — Getting Started with kubectl
5. 5Chapter 4 — Pods: The Smallest Unit
6. 6Chapter 5 — Deployments: Running and Scaling
7. 7Chapter 6 — Services and Networking
8. 8Chapter 7 — Configuration: ConfigMaps and Secrets
9. 9Chapter 8 — Storage: Persisting Data
10. 10Chapter 9 — Ingress: Routing External Traffic
11. 11Chapter 10 — Scaling, Health, and Production