Chapter 2: Architecting Production-Grade Kubernetes Infrastructure

In the previous chapter, you learned about the core components of Kubernetes and the basics of its infrastructure, and why putting Kubernetes in production is a challenging journey. We introduced the production-readiness characteristics for the Kubernetes clusters, along with our recommended checklist for the services and configurations that ensure the production-readiness of your clusters.

We also introduced a group of infrastructure design principles that we learned through building production-grade cloud environments. We use them as our guideline through this book whenever we make architectural and design decisions, and we highly recommend that cloud infrastructure teams consider ...

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