Intro to Kubernetes

Jock Reed, Lead Developer Advocate Cloud Technologies

@JockDaRock

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 • Introduction
• The Why and What of Kubernetes
• Basic Kubernetes
Agenda • Kubernetes in action
• Resources for Learning

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Jock Reed –
a.k.a.
JockDaRock

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The Why and
What of
Kubernetes?
 1. Easily run lots of
apps/services at the same
time and make sure each one
has all the resources it needs.
2. Quickly move apps to other
compute resources
3. Improve agile software
processes
4. reduce resource waste -
Scale your programs up or
down as needed
5. Large community of support

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 1. Containers – Application
Isolation
2. Computer Segmentation /
Infra as Code
3. Internal DNS
4. Database
5. Scaling
6. K8s APIs – Automation for
your further Kubernetes
control
7. K8s likes Microservices

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Basics -
Workloads
 1. Pods – Basic Resource Unit
2. Pods – One or Many – Same
STUF Resources
Replication – More is Better
F 3.
and so is less
4. Deployments – Load Balanced
Pods
5. Other Types – StatefulSets,
DaemonSets, etc.

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Basics -
Services
 1. Exposes pods/deployments –
to other pods/deployments or
outside access
2. ClusterIP – IntraCluster
Access
3. IntraCluster Access is limited
to namespace
4. NodePort – Ephemeral Port
External Access
5. LoadBalancer – External
Access from IP Pool

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Basics - Ingress
 1. Provides access to internal
apps external to k8s cluster
2. Ingress Controller is accessed
as a LoadBalancer service
3. Only http based on standard
ports (80/443)
4. Needs DNS to point to
ingress IP address
5. Ingress Controllers – Nginx,
Traefik, Istio, etc.

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Basics -
Namespaces
 1. App groupings
2. Creates Isolation from other
namespaces
3. Sort of like a VLAN
4. Restricted Access
5. Don’t let it be why your
Cluster is Ginormous!

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Basics -
Autoscaling
 1. + / - Pods automagically
2. Resource Driven – CPU, Mem
– Know Thy App
3. Define Max and Min
4. Plugins
5. Scale to Zero

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 1. Workloads = App
deployments
2. Services = Exposure
Seven tips 3. Ingress = DNS based access
to Apps
for better
Namespace = Isolation
presentations 4.

5. Autoscaling = The real magic

behind Kubernetes –
Resource Management and
Automation

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Kubernetes in
action
Resources for Learning
 https://go.darock.io/intro2k8s

Seven tips
for better
presentations

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