deploy a scalable and self-healing application, how pods are scheduled to nodes, how parts of the application can communicate, and how the application is discoverable from the outside. Next, you will cover security concerns describing the different authentication methods, the RBAC authorization mode, security contexts, network policies, and how to secure container images. You will also cover using persistent volumes for your containers to store long-term data, monitoring your clusters and applications and implementing design patterns for multi-container pods. The concluding chapters guide you through the upgrade of your deployed cluster. After reading this book, you will have enough knowledge to deploy a complex application using a Kubernetes cluster and be ready for the certification exams. What You Will Learn Deploy a Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm and learn how the control plane works Discover how the Kubernetes API is structured Deploy secure, auto-scaled, and self-healing applications Master the kubectl command-line tool Who This Book Is For Administrators and application developers with good knowledge of micro-services development and deployment.