Jump right into Kubernetes development with career-focused lessons and hands-on practice.

DevOps for Developers

Kubernetes is a powerful container management tool that's taking the world by storm. This detailed course will help you master it.

In this course, you'll start with the fundamentals of Kubernetes and what the main components of a cluster look like. You'll then learn how to use those components to build, test, deploy, and upgrade applications, as well as how to achieve state persistence once your application is deployed. You'll also learn how to secure your deployments and manage resources, which are crucial DevOps skills.

By the time you're done, you'll have a firm grasp on what Kubernetes is, as well as the skills to deploy your own clusters and applications with confidence.

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

# Summary

With the exception of `emptyDir`, our choice of volume type demonstrated in this chapter was not simply based on the ability to use them in a Minikube cluster. Each of these three volume types will be an essential piece in the chapters that follow. 
* We'll use `hostPath` to access the Docker server from inside containers. 

* The `gitRepo` volume type will be very significant once we start designing a continuous deployment pipeline. 
* The `emptyDir` type will be required as long as we use Minikube. Until we have a better solution for creating a Kubernetes cluster, `emptyDir` will continue to be used in our Minikube examples.

We have only scratched the surface with volumes. There are at least two more types that we should explore inside Minikube, and one when we change to a different solution for creating a cluster.

The volumes that we’ll explore throughout the rest of the course are topics deep enough to deserve a separate chapter or, as we already mentioned, require that we get rid of Minikube.



Review what we’ve learned so far and what we’ll learn next.

What's Next?

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