Getting Started with Production-Ready Clusters
In this lesson, we will discuss the first steps and choices we need to make for setting up a cluster for a production-ready environment.
Creating a Kubernetes cluster is not trivial. We have to make many choices, and we can easily get lost in the myriad of options. The number of permutations is getting close to infinite and, yet, our clusters need to be configured consistently.
Cluster Setup
Let’s compare Docker Swarm and Kubernetes for setting up a cluster.
Docker Swarm
Unlike Docker Swarm that packs almost everything into a single binary, Kubernetes clusters require quite a few separate components running across the nodes. Setting them up can be very easy, or it can become a challenge. It all depends on the choices we make initially. One of the first things we need to do is choose a tool that we’ll use to create a Kubernetes cluster.
If we’d decide to ...