Kubernetes for Admins

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Containerization

Orchestration

CI / CD

Service Mesh

Package Application

Run Application

Manage Application

 Connect & Secure Application

Docker

Kubernetes

Bitbucket + ConcourseCI + Artifactory + Spinnaker

Istio

Cluster

Collection of machines:

 aggregate computing power.

A Kubernetes cluster is controlled by a single API and can be used by that API.

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References

Book: Kubernetes: Up and Running

Book: Managing Kubernetes

https://kubernetes.io/

K8s Overview

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Basic Objects

Pods

ReplicaSets

Services

Storage

Persistent Volumes

ConfigMaps

Secrets

Organise Your Cluster

Namespaces

Labels

Annotations

app=greatapp

checksum.kubernetes.io/
configmap=9c6537e

Useful Concepts

Deployments

Ingress

StatefulSets

Batch Workloads

Jobs

ScheduledJobs

Cluster Agents & Utilities

DaemonSets

on every nodes ...

Node / VM

Kubernetes Architecture

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Concepts

Declarative Configuration

Reconciliation Loop

Dynamic Grouping

Desired State

Current State

selector:
    matchLabels:
        app: Webapp

         version: v2     

Structure

Unix Philosophy of Many Components

API-Driven Interactions

Components

Master VM 1

etcd

API Server

Scheduler

Controller Manager

kubelet

kube-proxy

Worker VM 1

Docker

UI

CLI

Control Plane

kubeDNS

metrics-server

add-on

Add-on:

      Kubernetes Dashboard,

      automatic certificate agents,

      functions as a service (FaaS) etc.

The K8s API Server

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Functions of API Server

1. API Management

2. Request processing

3. Internal control loops

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1. API Management

API Paths

API Discovery

OpenAPI Spec Serving

API Translation

2. Request Management

GET                          LIST                         POST / PUT                        DELETE

Type Of Request

Authenticate

RBAC/Authorization

Life of Request

Admission Control

2. Request Management

Specialised Requests

/proxy

/exec

/attach

/logs

Watch Operations

Optimistically Concurrent Updates

Alternate Encodings

application/json

application/yaml

application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf

Common Response Codes

202: Accepted

400: Bad Request

401: Unauthorised

403: Forbidden

409: Conflict

422: Unprocessable Entity

3. Internal control loops

API Server Internals

Custom Resource Definition

Debugging the API Server

Basic Logs

Audit Logs

Activating Additional Logs

Debugging kubectl Requests

Scheduler

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Scheduling Process

Scheduler

nodeName is missing

Pod

Node

kubelet

Docker

Get list of all healthy nodes

Filter Nodes based on Predicates

Prioritise/score Nodes

Get Best scored nodes

Choose a node (Round Robin)

Scheduler / Algorithm

Controlling Scheduling

Node Selectors

Node Affinity

Taints and Tolerations

Go

XL

SUV

affinity:
  nodeAffinity:
    requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
      nodeSelectorTerms:
      - matchExpressions:
        # foo == A
        - key: foo
          operator: In
          values:
          - A
        # bar != C
        - key: bar
          operator: NotIn
          values:
          - C
kind: Pod
spec:
  nodeSelector:
    nvme-ssd: true

Installing Kubernetes

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kubeadm

Requirements

kubelet

Control Plane

Pre-flight Checks

kubeadm Config

Certificates

etcd

kubeconfig

Taints

Worker Nodes

Add-Ons

Phases

High Availability

Upgrades

Authentication and User Management

Authorization

Admission Control

Networking

Monitoring Kubernetes

Disaster Recovery

Extending Kubernetes

Kubernetes Overview

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Kubernetes Overview

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