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The One Where It Turns Out I Misunderstood Kubernetes

Henry Quinn on July 19, 2019

I just finished Nigel Poulton's The Kubernetes Book. I highly recommend it, even though it pointed out some pretty big misconceptions I had about h...
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Troy

Great write-up Henry. Also read the Nigel Poulton books (Kubernetes & Docker) which helped paint the big picture for Kubernetes. I came from a largely Docker background (specifically AWS ECS) so service\task scheduling was familiar but now with new terms.

Either way - PVC's is still a tricky topic for me with k8s. Still working on that..

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Bradley Beach

I have a similar situation at my work, where I just fell into handling our devops and had to learn docker and kubernetes on my own. Thanks for the book recommendation! One thing that helped me with cluster management is Rancher 2.x if you haven't checked it out I recommend giving it a look.

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Henry Quinn

I keep seeing Rancher pop up. I'll have to look into it in the coming weeks!

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David J Eddy

Thanks for the article Henry. sounds liek your learning a lot! Keep up the weekly writing; I look forward to your next one.