Preface -- Chapter 1 - The Dawning of Digital Era -- Chapter 2 - Leveraging the Cloud-Native Computing Model for the Digital Era -- Chapter 3 - Kubernetes Architecture, Best Practices and Patterns -- Chapter 4 - The Resiliency and Observability Aspects of Cloud-native Applications -- Chapter 5 - Creating Kubernetes Clusters on Private Cloud (VMware vSphere) -- Chapter 6: Creating Kubernetes Clusters on Public Cloud (Microsoft Azure) -- Chapter 7: Design, Development and Deployment of Event-driven Microservices Practically -- Chapter 8 - Serverless Computing for the Cloud-native Era -- Chapter 9 - Demonstrating a Serverless Application using Knative on a Kubernetes Cluster -- Chapter 10 - Delineating Cloud-native Edge Computing -- Chapter 11 - Setting up a Kubernetes Cluster using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) -- Chapter 12 - Reliable Cloud-native Applications through Service Mesh -- Chapter 13 - Cloud-native Computing: The Security Challenges and the Solution Approaches -- Chapter 14 - Microservices Security: The Concerns and the Solution Approaches -- Chapter 15 - Apache Kafka: Setup, Monitor and Secure Kubernetes cluster.
"Cloud-native Computing describes proven and promising digital technologies and tools and how these can combine to build and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications in a variety of industries. Various implementation technologies will be discussed with a wealth of practical details to help upskill modern IT professionals and software engineers. Various challenges and shortcomings of current technologies will be demonstrated and the authors will illustrate how they can be surmounted through cloud-native computing. Computing applications and services designed for the cloud can bring powerful automation to various business operations. This book deftly demystifies digitization, distribution and decentralization movements and delineates the various applications when cloud technologies fuse with one another. Each technology is described in detail and interactivity with complex systems is discussed. Including many practical examples from the authors? industry experience, the book takes a tutorial approach and is supplemented by further use cases on a companion website."--