Part 4 – Getting Your Cluster Production-Ready

This part will cover all the steps for bringing a blank Kubernetes cluster into a production-ready cluster. This includes maintenance tasks such as etcd backups and Kubernetes upgrades, monitoring your cluster health, collecting application logs, and extending a cluster's functionality using tools such as OPA Gatekeeper and Longhorn.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 9, Cluster Configuration Backup and Recovery
• Chapter 10, Monitoring and Logging
• Chapter 11, Bringing Storage to Kubernetes Using Longhorn
• Chapter 12, Security and Compliance Using OPA Gatekeeper
• Chapter 13, Scaling in Kubernetes
• Chapter 14, Load Balancer Configuration and SSL Certificates
• Chapter 15, Rancher and Kubernetes Troubleshooting