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Kelsey Hightower is a software engineer and developer advocate known for his work on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
Known for: Kubernetes Up & Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure
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Kubernetes Up & Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure
Kubernetes Up & Running introduces readers to Kubernetes, the open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Written by three of the project's early contributors, the book provides practical guidance on setting up clusters, deploying applications, and managing workloads in production environments. It explains core concepts such as pods, services, and controllers, and offers real-world examples to help readers understand how to build resilient, scalable systems using Kubernetes.
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Understanding the Architecture: The Foundation of a Cluster
Before we discuss the finer details, we must ground ourselves in the architecture. Kubernetes is not a single monolithic program; it is a composition of coordinated components that, together, form the control plane and data plane. The control plane includes the API server, the scheduler, and the con...
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Core Objects and Application Lifecycle Management
At the heart of Kubernetes lie its core objects: Pods, ReplicaSets, and Deployments. A Pod represents the smallest deployable unit—typically one or more containers that share network and storage space. Instead of thinking in single containers, Kubernetes encourages you to think in Pods because appli...
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