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Kubernetes Cookbook

This is the place where we provide the manifests, scripts, configuration files and other related material used in the Kubernetes Cookbook. It's organized along the book's 14 chapters. In bold you see the recipes that contain files, such as YAML manifests, here:

1. Getting Started With Kubernetes

• 1.1 Using Kubernetes Without Installation
• 1.2 Installing the Kubernetes CLI kubectl
• 1.3 Installing Minikube To Run A Local Kubernetes Instance
• 1.4 Using Minikube Locally for Development
• 1.5 Starting your First Application on Minikube
• 1.6 Accessing the Dashboard in Minikube

2. Creating a Kubernetes Cluster

• 2.1 Installing kubeadm To Create A Kubernetes Cluster
• 2.2 Bootstrapping A Kubernetes Cluster Using kubeadm
• 2.3 Downloading A Kubernetes Release From GitHub
• 2.4 Downloading Client And Server Binaries
• 2.5 Using Hyperkube Image To Run A Kubernetes Master Node With Docker
• 2.6 Writing A Systemd Unit File To Run Kubernetes Components
• 2.7 Creating A Kubernetes Cluster On Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• 2.8 Creating A Kubernetes Cluster On Azure Container Service (ACS)

3. Learning to Use the Kubernetes Client

• 3.1 Listing Resources
• 3.2 Deleting Resources
• 3.3 Watching Resource Changes With kubectl
• 3.4 Editing Resources With kubectl
• 3.5 Letting kubectl Explain Resources And Fields

4. Creating and Modifying Fundamental Workloads

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• 4.1 Creating A Deployment Using kubectl run
• 4.2 Creating Objects From File Manifests
• 4.3 Writing A Pod Manifest From Scratch
• 4.4 Launching Deployment Using A Manifest
• 4.5 Updating A Deployment

5. Working With Services

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• 5.1 Creating A Service To Expose Your Application
• 5.2 Verifying the DNS Entry of a Service
• 5.3 Changing The Type of a Service
• 5.4 Deploy An Ingress Controller on Minikube
• 5.5 Making Services Accessible From Outside The Cluster

6. Exploring the Kubernetes API and Key Metadata

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• 6.1 Discovering API Endpoints Of The Kubernetes API Server
• 6.2 Understanding The Structure Of A Kubernetes Manifest
• 6.3 Creating Namespaces To Avoid Name Collisions
• 6.4 Setting Quotas Within A Namespace
• 6.5 Labelling An Object
• 6.6 Using Labels For Queries
• 6.7 Annotating a Resource With One Command

7. Managing Specialized Workloads

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• 7.1 Running A Batch Job
• 7.2 Running a Task on a Schedule Within a Pod
• 7.3 Running Infrastructure Daemons Per Node
• 7.4 Managing Stateful and Leader-Follower Apps
• 7.5 Influencing Pods Startup Behavior

8. Volumes and Configuration Data

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• 8.1 Exchanging Data Between Containers Via A Local Volume
• 8.2 Passing An API Access Key To A Pod Using A Secret
• 8.3 Providing Configuration Data To An Application
• 8.4 Using A Persistent Volume With Minikube
• 8.5 Understanding Data Persistency on Minikube
• 8.6 Dynamically Provision Persistent Storage On GKE

9. Scaling

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• 9.1 Scaling A Deployment
• 9.2 Automatically Resizing a Cluster in GKE
• 9.3 Automatically Resizing a Cluster in AWS
• 9.4 Using Horizontal Pod Autoscaling on GKE

10. Security

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• 10.1 Providing A Unique Identity For An Application
• 10.2 Listing And Viewing Access Control Information
• 10.3 Controlling Access To Resources
• 10.4 Securing Pods

11. Monitoring and Logging

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• 11.1 Accessing The Logs of a Container
• 11.2 Recover From a Broken State With a Liveness Probe
• 11.3 Control Traffic Flow to a Pod Using a Readiness Probe
• 11.4 Adding Liveness and Readiness Probes To Your Deployments
• 11.5 Enabling Heapster on Minikube To Monitor Resources
• 11.6 Using Prometheus On Minikube
• 11.7 Using Elasticsearch-Fluentd-Kibana (EFK) On Minikube

12. Maintenance And Troubleshooting

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• 12.1 Enabling Autocomplete For kubectl
• 12.2 Removing a Pod From a Service
• 12.3 Access a ClusterIP Service Outside the Cluster
• 12.4 Understanding And Parsing Resource Statuses
• 12.5 Debugging Pods
• 12.6 Getting A Detailed Snapshot Of The Cluster State
• 12.7 Adding Kubernetes Worker Nodes
• 12.8 Draining Kubernetes Nodes For Maintenance
• 12.9 Managing etcd

13. Developing Kubernetes

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• 13.1 Compiling From Source
• 13.2 Compiling A Specific Component
• 13.3 Using A Python Client To Interact With The Kubernetes API
• 13.4 Extending The API Using Custom Resource Definitions (CRD)

14. Ecosystem

• 14.1 Installing Helm, The Kubernetes Package Manager
• 14.2 Using Helm to Install Applications
• 14.3 Creating Your Own Chart To Package Your Application with Helm
• 14.4 Converting Your Docker Compose Files To Kubernetes Manifests
• 14.5 Creating A Kubernetes Cluster With kubicorn
• 14.6 Storing Encrypted Secrets in Version Control
• 14.7 Deploying Functions with kubeless