O'Reilly Report Extending Kubernetes

07 Oct 2019 · One minute read · on Gianluca's blog

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A few months ago I wrote a report with O’Reilly called Extending Kubernetes. I realized I didn’t share this major achievement here with all of you!

It comes from my experience not from ops but as a developer that works with Kubernetes.

K8S requires a big effort in terms of maintenance and setup, who says something different lies. Complexity is not too bad and sometime it is a requirement, a good way to justify it is to use kubernetes as much as you can.

Operations and teams need a good UX, Kubernetes is extremely extensible with custom resource definitions, kubectl plugins, controller, shared informers, audit logs and operators.

This report is about it. I meanly use Go for the examples but a lot of them can be re-written using any SDK provided by the Kubernetes community.

It is a practical report, with code examples and ideas about what you can do to integrate your day to day operations with Kubernetes in order to share the pain with the developers.

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Now that I recovered from the effort of writing it, stay tuned because I am looking for something else to do!

Read it and let me know if you like it via @gianarb.

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