Ed Robinson - Kubernetes on AWS: Deploy and manage production-ready Kubernetes clusters on AWS

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Ed Robinson works as a senior site reliability engineer at Cookpad's global headquarters in Bristol, UK. He has been working with Kubernetes for the last three years, deploying clusters on AWS to deliver resilient and reliable services for global audiences. He is a contributor to several open source projects and is a maintainer of Trfk, the modern HTTP reverse proxy designed for containers and microservices.

Manuel Tiago Pereira is a software engineer with vast experience of automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration for systems from development environments to highly available platforms for web applications. For the last couple of years, he has been invested in providing solid platforms for application deployments using Kubernetes. He has dedicated most of his professional career to SaaS companies and he's currently working at Talkdesk in order to make life easier for call-center operators and increase their customers' happiness.

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Docker containers promise to radically change the way developers and operations build, deploy, and manage applications running on the cloud. Kubernetes provides the orchestration tools you need to realize that promise in production.

Kubernetes on AWS guides you in deploying a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. You will discover how to use the power of Kubernetes, which is one of the fastest growing platforms for production-based container orchestration, to manage and update your applications. Kubernetes is becoming the go-to choice for production-grade deployments of cloud-native applications. This book covers Kubernetes from first principles. You will start by learning about Kubernetes' powerful abstractionspods and serviceswhich make managing container deployments easy. This will be followed by a guided tour through setting up a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on AWS, while learning the techniques you need to successfully deploy and manage your own applications.

By the end of the book, you will have gained plenty of hands-on experience with Kubernetes on AWS. You will also have picked up some tips on deploying and managing applications, keeping your cluster and applications secure, and ensuring that your whole system is reliable and resilient to failure.

If you're a cloud engineer, cloud solution provider, sysadmin, site reliability engineer, or developer with an interest in DevOps and are looking for an extensive guide to running Kubernetes in the AWS environment, this book is for you. Though any previous knowledge of Kubernetes is not expected, some experience with Linux and Docker containers would be a bonus.

, Google's Infrastructure for the Rest of Us , helps you understand how Kubernetes can give you some of the same superpowers that the site reliability engineers at Google use to ensure that Google's services are resilient, reliable, and efficient.

, Start Your Engines , helps you take your first steps with Kubernetes. You will learn how to start a cluster suitable for learning and development use on your own workstation, and will begin to learn how to use Kubernetes itself.

, Reach for the Cloud , teaches you how to build a Kubernetes cluster running on AWS from first principles.

, Managing Change in Your Applications , gets into depth with tools that Kubernetes provide to manage the Pods that you run on your cluster.