Day Two Cloud 175: Deploying Kubernetes And Managing Clusters

On today’s Day Two Cloud we continue our Kubernetes conversation with guest Michael Levan. Today’s show focuses on Kubernetes deployments and managing clusters once they’re up and running. We discuss whether Kubernetes is really more complex than traditional application infrastructure; examine management options such as GitOps, manifests, and Kubectl; share useful tools; and talk about why Kubernetes is all about APIs. Sponsor: Kolide Kolide is an endpoint security solution that helps your end users solve security problems themselves. They get smarter about security and you get more compliant computing. Find out more at kolide.com/daytwocloud. Show Links: Day Two Cloud 174: Building Kubernetes Clusters – Packet Pushers Kubernetes Unpacked – Packet Pushers @TheNJDevOpsGuy – Michael Levan on Twitter Michael Levan on LinkedIn Kubernetes For Network Engineers – YouTube Service Mesh And Ingress For Kubernetes – YouTube Dev.to/TheNJDevOpsGuys – Michael’s blog posts Transcript: [00:00:01.290] – Ethan Sponsor Kolide is an end point security solution that helps your end user solve their security problems themselves. They get smarter about security, and you get more compliant computing. Find out [email protected] slash day two cloud. That’s kolide.com. Com multicloud. Welcome to day Two Cloud, and we’re bringing it today with part two of our Deploying Kubernetes series with our guest Michael Levan. Michael is a leader in Kubernetes and containerization. You can find out all about him at michael levan.net. And of course, as we mentioned along the way, he is the host of the Kubernetes Unpacked podcasts. And in today’s show, Ned, we get into we did the building of Clusters last week, and this week we’re talking about managing clusters. What did you take away from this episode? [00:00:59.660] – Ned I think one of the biggest things that took away was the philosophical point behind managing Kubernetes and the fact that it’s all API driven. So if you’re coming from a CLI background where you’re used to interacting with things at the command line or through scripts, things shift a little bit with Kubernetes. But the more things change, the more they stay the same. [00:01:19.930] – Ethan The more things change, the more they stay the same, indeed. Enjoy our conversation with Michael Levan. You can find him on Twitter at the NJ DevOps guy. Michael, you came back for part two, and I got to address what, for me, is the elephant in the room. And that’s the axiom you kind of hear out there, that Kubernetes is complex. Is kubernetes really that much more complex than traditional application deployment platforms? We’ve done with VMs for years where you got middle boxes and you can do layer seven application rewriting, and there’s networking lizard greed that goes on. There’s application performance monitoring and all that st...