Platform Engineering on Kubernetes - by Mauricio Salatino (Paperback)

About the Book

Take the fast track in your journey to continuous delivery, with open source tools for Kubernetes and cloud applications. This book explores the tools and techniques you'll need to overcome common cloud native challenges.
Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes accelerates development of cloud-based systems with vibrant open source projects like Helm, Tekton, Knative, and Crossplane to automate your projects from testing through delivery. Learn how to package services, build and deploy services to a Kubernetes cluster, and combine different tools to solve the complex challenges of CD in a cloud native environment.

Book Synopsis

Empower your team with platforms built on top of Kubernetes using open source tools.

Adopting Kubernetes is complex--especially when you're working in an organization with multiple teams, deploying to multiple cloud providers, and working with different stacks. Platform Engineering on Kubernetes shows you how to solve these common cloud native problems with open-source tools and emerging best practices from the Kubernetes community.

In Platform Engineering on Kubernetes you will learn about:

• The principles behind platform engineering and how these apply to Kubernetes
• Evaluating and adopting open-source projects to build domain specific platforms
• Creating Platform APIs to enable teams to release more software more efficiently
• Reducing the cognitive load of a platform for your teams
• Measuring your platform initiatives using established software delivery metrics
• Package, version, distribute, and deploy with Helm, Tekton, Dagger and Argo CD
• Implement a multi-cloud infrastructure strategy using Crossplane
• Progressive upgrades with Knative Serving and Argo Rollouts
• Enable development teams with standard application-level APIs with Dapr

A platform helps your team stay focused on delivering amazing software. But building a reliable platform on top of Kubernetes demands real expertise. Platform Engineering on Kubernetes reveals how to combine multiple popular open-source projects into a custom platform that works for your applications and your teams. It's the perfect guide for your organization's journey to Kubernetes, simplifying cloud native development for your dev teams and helping them deliver software faster.

Foreword by Jared Watts.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Kubernetes is an amazing orchestration tool, but it's just the start of your journey to the cloud. To efficiently deliver cloud-native software, your team needs a solid build pipeline, an efficient package manager and distribution mechanism, and APIs that reduce your team's cognitive load. This book will show you how to build custom platforms on top of Kubernetes--all with open-source tools such as Dapr, Knative, Argo CD and Rollouts, and Tekton.

About the book

Platform Engineering on Kubernetes starts by clearly defining the elements of a great Kubernetes-based platform. Then, it systematically introduces the tools you'll need to build a platform that exactly matches your organization's requirements. Hands-on examples and detailed code guide you through each step. By the end, you'll be able to create a complete platform to efficiently deliver cloud-native software without being tied to a specific cloud provider or vendor.

What's inside

• Package, version, distribute, and deploy with Helm, Tekton, Dagger and Argo CD
• Implement a multi-cloud infrastructure strategy using Crossplane
• Progressive upgrades with Knative Serving and Argo Rollouts
• Enable development teams with standard application-level APIs with Dapr

About the reader

For developers and software architects familiar with the basics of containers and Kubernetes.

About the author

Mauricio Salatino is currently a Dapr OSS Contributor, a Knative Steering Committee member, and co-lead of the Knative Functions working group.

Table of Contents

1 (The rise of) platforms on top of Kubernetes
2 Cloud-native application challenges
3 Service pipelines: Building cloud-native applications
4 Environment pipelines: Deploying cloud-native applications
5 Multi-cloud (app) infrastructure
6 Let's build a platform on top of Kubernetes
7 Platform capabilities I: Shared application concerns
8 Platform capabilities II: Enabling teams to experiment
9 Measuring your platforms

From the Back Cover

Take the fast track in your journey to continuous delivery, with open source tools for Kubernetes and cloud applications. This book explores the tools and techniques you'll need to overcome common cloud native challenges. In Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes you will learn how to:

Select the right open source project to solve challenges with your Kubernetes application Package, version, distribute and instant cloud native services using Helm Create and run pipelines using Tekton Plan and implement a multicloud strategy with Crossplane Implement risk-free and progressive upgrades with Knative Utilize Knative for serving, routing, and event-driven applications Automate testing, even when you don't have all your services up and running Troubleshoot and measure application performance

Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes lays out a toolbox of free, open source projects you can use to implement continuous delivery for Kubernetes-based applications in the cloud. Each chapter covers a different project, clearly demonstrating how it simplifies essential CD tasks like packaging, building pipelines, and multi-cloud deployment. This book shows developers and architects confidently identify common patterns in successful open source tools so they can pick the right options for their own platforms. about the technology Continuous delivery practices help your team quickly introduce, iterate on, and deploy new features so you can get software into production quickly. The tools in this book help facilitate continuous delivery practices by solving the technical and architectural challenges commonly found when adopting Kubernetes, automating essential dev and deployment tasks, and improving your team's collaboration.

Review Quotes

'A great intro to best practices regarding continuous delivery in the cloud.' Rahul Jain 'The material is really excellent: the explanations are clear and the illustrative examples are practical and relevant.' Alain Lompo 'A great soup-to-nuts book for learning about CD for Kubernetes-native applications.' Kent Spillner

About the Author

Mauricio Salatino is a staff engineer at VMware, where he works for the Knative project. He has previously worked as a Kubernetes trainer for LearnK8s, and as a senior software engineer for Red Hat/JBoss in the Business Automation R&D department. Mauricio is an active open-source contributor for different projects, including Jenkins X, Spring Cloud, and JHipster, a three-time speaker at Kubecon, and has been involved in the Kubernetes community since 2016.