Kubernetes resources

Kubernetes resource list

Kubernetes and Microservices go hand in hand. Basically you don’t want to do one without the other. Kubernetes is a container orchestration software. When you build a system based on the Microservice architecture you need a way to package and run those microservices on the cloud.

The traditional way of preparing a machine by running scripts which download software and prepare a server environment to run your applications are over. It is far easier to roll your Microservices up into a container with all of it’s requirements and then deploy the container.

However, once you get all of your microservices into containers you need a way for them to find each other and work together as a team to form a larger application. This is where Kubernetes comes in. With Kubernetes you use YAML files to describe your system and how you would like your system to be maintained. Once you describe your system Kubernetes works hard to keep it in the way you describe it.

Kubernetes monitors your Microservice containers. When one crashes Kubernetes fires up another. When traffic is too much for a single Microservice node Kubernetes fires up another identical node and load balances the requests, when traffic reduces Kubernetes reduces the identical node count. Kubernetes is a dream come true for Microservice based applications.

Kubernetes is highly complex and takes a lot of time to master. That is why I suggest using Openshift. Openshift interacts with the Kubernetes api for you which makes everything much easier. You should still have a basic understanding of Kubernetes since Openshift is built on top of Kubernetes. OpenShift is one of the final links in the modern DevOps pipleline. Here is a link to more resources and information about OpenShift.

Articles

Here is a link to the main Kubernetes website.

Here is a link to a glossary of  Kubernetes terms

What is Kubernetes a beginners guide.

Here is a link to a page explaining Kubernetes Terminology. There are so many new terms this article makes it easy to find the meaning of Pods, Nodes, Clusters etc.

Here is the documentation overview link.

Here is a link to the kubernetes tutorials page.

Here is a link to the list of kubernetes api programming language clients for interacting with the Kubernetes API directly in your applications code.

Here is a link to the Kubetcl  online free book about kubernetes.

Kubernetes clusters and node size suggestions. This article will help you decide how large your node instances should be and how many nodes you should include in your cluster.

Kubernetes cluster autoscaler link on github.

List of Amazon cloud instance kubernetes POD limit per instance.

Kubernetes bootcamp website. This cool website walks you through the basics of Kubernetes.

Kubernetes YAML File simply explained for Beginners This is exactly what it sounds like

Videos

Kubernetes Architecture Simplified | K8s Explained in 10 Minutes

Organizing Kubernetes with Namespaces (Kubernetes Best Practices)

Kubernetes: One Cluster or Many?

Microservices, Kubernetes, and Application Modernization Done Right

Deploying Microservices in Kubernetes – Webinar by Certified Kubernetes Administrator Janakiram MSV

This video contains useful information about Kubernetes, Microservices and Launching a Microservice based application with Kubernetes. The beginning of this video starts out explaining how the traditional Monolithic architecture worked. It then moves onto how Microservice architectures work and continues by providing a comparison of the two. At ~22:45 the video starts to talk about deploying with Kubernetes

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Kubernetes in 5 minutes

This video quickly gives an overview of kubernetes. It could go higher up on the list, but this is where it is.