Kubernetes Native Development: Develop, Build, Deploy, and Run Applications on Kubernetes

Chapter Goal: Understand the foundations of Kubernetes and how it disrupted development and operations

No of pages 30

Sub -Topics

1. Introduction to Kubernetes
2. Services provided by Kubernetes (Infrastructure, Cluster, Application, Developer)
3. Why change development behaviour?

1. How Kubernetes and DevOps fit together

Chapter 2: Application Design Decisions

Chapter Goal: Discuss various design decisions before you start with development

No of pages: 40

Sub - Topics

1. Domain Driven Design
2. Microservices

1. Choosing the right programming platform (Quarkus, Javascript, Go ... (Python: )

1. Application Deployment Models (App Server, Modular App Server, e.g. Galleon, Bootable Jar, Serverless, Function as a Service)

Chapter 3: Developing on and with Kubernetes

Chapter Goal: Learn different development models and options

No of pages: 50

Sub - Topics:

1. Hybrid Models (local coding / remote build / remote test, local coding / local build / remote test)

1. Coding on Kubernetes

Chapter 4: Writing Kubernetes-native Applications

Chapter Goal: Explain how to leverage Kubernetes API, Resources, CRDs

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1. Using the Kubernetes API to make the application control the infrastructure

3. Use Custom Resource Definitions to store application data

Chapter 5: Kubernetes-native CI/CD

No of pages: 30

Chapter Goal: How to Leverage Kubernetes for Build (pipelines)

1. Staging environments
2. Container Builds

1. Kubernetes Build Pipelines

1. Continuous Deployment

Chapter 6: Reproducible Deployments and Operations to Kubernetes

No of pages: 30

Chapter Goal: Show different ways of packaging and deploying applications and separating environment-specific configuration

1. HELM
2. What are Operators?
3. Writing your own Operator
4. Configuration Management

Chapter 7: Running Distributed Applications

No of pages: 30

Chapter Goal: Explain the different runtime aspects and how to use application service to shift technical responsibilities to the platform

1. Composing applications from services
2. Databases
3. Leveraging platform services to purify business logic (Service Mesh, Prometheus, EFK)
4. Kubernetes-native Middleware

Chapter 8: Managing the Application Lifecycle

No of pages: 20

Chapter Goal: Illustrate how to scale an application, release new features, manage traffic and make services more resilient in a distributed environment.

1. Scaling your application
2. Serverless / Function as a Service
3. Canary Releases, Blue/Green Deployment, Dark Releases, A/B Testing
4. Improving robustness and resiliency