Description

Book Synopsis

Jeevan Gheevarghese Joseph is a senior principal product manager in the Containers and Kubernetes Services group within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He focuses on product strategy for containers and Kubernetes platforms at OCI. Jeevan also works with strategic customers as an advisor to help them make the most of Oracle's tooling and technology platforms. Jeevan's interests include application architecture, developer tooling, automation, and cross-product integration. Before his current role, he held positions in the Oracle A-Team and Oracle Data Cloud. He routinely speaks at developer events and industry conferences.

Adao Oliveira Junior has been working in the technology industry for more than two decades, with five years of experience in cloud native solutions. He is a senior principal solutions architect who excels at gathering high-level requirements and turning them into technical solutions, aiding customers and partners worldwide. Adao

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure 1
Realms, Regions, and Availability
Domains 2
Tenancies and Compartments 4
Controlling Access to Resources 5
Cloud Guard and Security Zones 10
Service Limits and Cost Management 11
Getting Started with Your Tenancy 14
Setting Up Users and Groups 14
Setting Up API Keys and Auth Tokens 15
Planning How Your Teams Will Use OCI 16
Summary 18
References 18
Chapter 2 Infrastructure Automation and Management 19
One Set of APIs, Different Ways to Call Them 19
A Quick Terraform Primer 20
A Basic Introduction to the Terraform Language 23
Terraform State Tracking 25
The OCI Terraform Provider 26
Setting Up the OCI Terraform Provider 26
Managing OCI Resources with Terraform 29
Simplifying Infrastructure Management with the Resource Manager Service 31
Helm and Kubernetes Providers 33
Generating Resource Manager Stacks 36
Resource Discovery 36
Drift Detection 38
Generating a User Interface from Terraform Configurations with a Custom Schema 38
Publishing Your Stacks with Deploy Buttons 49
Managing Multiregion and Multicloud Configurations 51
Summary 53
References 54
Chapter 3 Cloud Native Services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 55
Oracle Container Image Registry 56
Working with OCIR 58
Image Signing 59
Image Scanning 60
Creating Containers from Images 61
Compute Instances 62
Container Instances 63
Container Engine for Kubernetes 65
Service Mesh 69
Serverless Functions 71
API Gateways 73
Components of an API Gateway 74
Working with the API Gateway Service 75
Messaging Systems 79
Streaming 80
Understanding the Streaming Service 81
Working with the OCI Streaming Service 82
OCI Events Service 88
Summary 91
References 91
Chapter 4 Understanding Container Engine for Kubernetes 93
Monoliths and Microservices 93
Containers 94
Container Orchestration and Kubernetes 95
Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes 96
OCI-Managed Components and Customer-Managed Components 97
Control Plane 97
Data Plane 98
Billable Components 99
Kubernetes Concepts 100
Cloud Controller Manager 101
Nodes and Node Pools 102
Node Pool Properties 103
Worker Node Images and Shapes 103
Kubernetes Labels 108
SSH Keys 109
Tagging Your Resources 110
Creating a Cluster 110
Quick Create Cluster Workflow 111
Custom Create Cluster Workflow 113
Using the OCI Command-Line Interface 117
Using the Terraform Provider and Modules 122
Automation and Terraform Code Generation 123
Asynchronous Cluster Creation 124
Cluster Topology Considerations 124
Using Multiple Node Pools 124
Scheduling Workloads on Specific Nodes 125
Kubernetes Networking 127
Container Network Interface (CNI) 127
OCI VCN-Native Pod Networking CNI 129
Flannel CNI 130
Kubernetes Storage 130
StorageClass: Flex Volume and CSI Plug-ins 131
Updating the Default Storage Class 131
File System Storage 133
Kubernetes Load Balancer Support 137
Working with the OCI Load Balancer Service 137
SSL Termination with OCI Load Balancer 140
Working with the OCI Network Load Balancer Service 142
Specifying Reserved Public IP Addresses 144
Commonly Used Annotations 144
Understanding Security List Management Modes 146
Using Node Label Selectors 147
Security Considerations for Your Cluster 149
Cluster Topology and Configuration Security Considerations 150
Authorization Using Workload Identity and Instance Principls 156
Securing Access to the Cluster 160
OCI IAM and Kubernetes RBAC 161
Federation with an IDP 162
Summary 162
References 163
Chapter 5 Container Engine for Kubernetes in Practice 165
Kubernetes Version Support 166
Upgrading the Control Plane 167
Upgrading the Data Plane 169
Upgrading an Existing Node Pool 170
Upgrading by Adding a Node Pool 173
Alternative Host OS (Not Kubernetes Version) Upgrade Options 175
Scaling a Cluster 175
Manual Scaling 175
Autoscaling 176
Scaling Workloads and Infrastructure Together 194
Autoscaler Best Practices 195
Cluster Access and Token Generation 196
Service Account Authentication 197
Configuring DNS 199
Configuring Node Local DNS Cache 201
Configuring ExternalDNS 202
Cluster Add-ons 203
Configuring Add-ons 203
Disabling Add-ons 205
Observability: Prometheus and Grafana 205
Monitoring Stack Components 205
Installing the kube-prometheus-stack 205
Operators and OCI Service Operator for Kubernetes 208
Getting Started with Operators on OKE 209
Operators for OCI, Oracle Database, and Oracle WebLogic 210
Troubleshooting Nodes with Node Doctor 214
Configuring SR-IOV Interfaces for Pods on OKE Using Multus 218
Using Bare Metal Nodes 218
Using Virtual Machine Nodes 226
Summary 238
References 239
Chapter 6 Securing Your Workloads and Infrastructure 241
Kubernetes Security Challenges 241
Concepts of Kubernetes Security 242
4Cs of Kubernetes Security 242
Securing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) 243
Private Clusters 244
Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) with OCI IAM Groups 248
Data Encryption and Key Management Service 250
Audit Logging 253
Security Zones 255
Network Security Groups (NSGs) 256
Web Application Firewall (WAF) 257
Network Firewall 262
Allowed Registries 264
Cloud Guard 266
Hardening Containers and OKE Worker Nodes 267
Container Scanning 268
Container Image Signing 270
Center for Internet Security (CIS)
Kubernetes Benchmarks 270
Using SELinux with OKE 272
Worker Nodes Limited Access 275
Securing Your Workloads 275
Security Context 275
syscalls and seccomp 278
Open Policy Agent (OPA) 280
OPA Gatekeeper 283
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) 285
Supporting Tools 287
External Container Scanning Tools 287
CIS-CAT Pro Assessor 287
Kube-bench 289
AppArmor 291
Falco 293
Tracee 293
Trivy 294
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Kubernetes Benchmarks 294
NIST Kubernetes Benchmarks 295
National Checklist Program Repository 296
National Vulnerability Database 296
NIST SP 800-190 Application Container Security Guide 296
Summary 296
References 297
Chapter 7 Serverless Platforms and Applications 299
Container Instances 300
Architecture 300
Using Container Instances 301
Serverless Functions 305
OCI Functions 306
Using OCI Functions 306
Building Your First Function 308
Adding an API Gateway 314
Function Logs and Distributed Tracing 315
Service Mesh 319
Using the Service Mesh 320
Adding a Service Mesh to an Application 321
Summary 330
References 330
Chapter 8 Observability 331
OCI Monitoring 331
Alarms 336
OCI Logging 338
Service Logs 340
Custom Logs 341
Audit Logs 343
Auditing OKE Activity 345
Advanced Observability in OCI 347
Logging Analytics 347
Enabling and Using Logging Analytics 349
Prometheus and Grafana with OKE 349
Using the OCI DataSource Plug-ins for Grafana 353
eBPF-Based Monitoring with Tetragon on OKE 353
Tetragon: eBPF-Based Security Observability and Enforcement 354
Running Tetragon on Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) 355
Summary 359
References 360
Chapter 9 DevOps and Deployment Automation 361
OCI DevOps Service 362
Code Repositories 363
Triggers 364
Build Pipelines 364
Artifacts 368
Environments 370
Deployment Pipelines 370
Elastically Scaling Jenkins on Kubernetes 376
Setting Up Jenkins on OKE 377
GitOps with ArgoCD 380
Setting Up Argo CD on OKE 381
Summary 384
References 384
Chapter 10 Bringing It Together: MuShop 385
Architecture 386
Source Code Structure 388
Services 390
Storefront 390
API 391
Catalog 391
Carts 392
User 392
Orders 393
Fulfillment 393
Payment 394
Assets 394
DBTools 394
Edge Router 394
Events 395
Newsletter Subscription 395
Load 395
Building the Services 395
Infrastructure Automation 398
Helm Charts 399
Utilities and Supporting Components 402
Deploying MuShop 403
Summary 405
References 406


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      Book Synopsis

      Jeevan Gheevarghese Joseph is a senior principal product manager in the Containers and Kubernetes Services group within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He focuses on product strategy for containers and Kubernetes platforms at OCI. Jeevan also works with strategic customers as an advisor to help them make the most of Oracle's tooling and technology platforms. Jeevan's interests include application architecture, developer tooling, automation, and cross-product integration. Before his current role, he held positions in the Oracle A-Team and Oracle Data Cloud. He routinely speaks at developer events and industry conferences.

      Adao Oliveira Junior has been working in the technology industry for more than two decades, with five years of experience in cloud native solutions. He is a senior principal solutions architect who excels at gathering high-level requirements and turning them into technical solutions, aiding customers and partners worldwide. Adao

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 Introduction to Oracle Cloud
      Infrastructure 1
      Realms, Regions, and Availability
      Domains 2
      Tenancies and Compartments 4
      Controlling Access to Resources 5
      Cloud Guard and Security Zones 10
      Service Limits and Cost Management 11
      Getting Started with Your Tenancy 14
      Setting Up Users and Groups 14
      Setting Up API Keys and Auth Tokens 15
      Planning How Your Teams Will Use OCI 16
      Summary 18
      References 18
      Chapter 2 Infrastructure Automation and Management 19
      One Set of APIs, Different Ways to Call Them 19
      A Quick Terraform Primer 20
      A Basic Introduction to the Terraform Language 23
      Terraform State Tracking 25
      The OCI Terraform Provider 26
      Setting Up the OCI Terraform Provider 26
      Managing OCI Resources with Terraform 29
      Simplifying Infrastructure Management with the Resource Manager Service 31
      Helm and Kubernetes Providers 33
      Generating Resource Manager Stacks 36
      Resource Discovery 36
      Drift Detection 38
      Generating a User Interface from Terraform Configurations with a Custom Schema 38
      Publishing Your Stacks with Deploy Buttons 49
      Managing Multiregion and Multicloud Configurations 51
      Summary 53
      References 54
      Chapter 3 Cloud Native Services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 55
      Oracle Container Image Registry 56
      Working with OCIR 58
      Image Signing 59
      Image Scanning 60
      Creating Containers from Images 61
      Compute Instances 62
      Container Instances 63
      Container Engine for Kubernetes 65
      Service Mesh 69
      Serverless Functions 71
      API Gateways 73
      Components of an API Gateway 74
      Working with the API Gateway Service 75
      Messaging Systems 79
      Streaming 80
      Understanding the Streaming Service 81
      Working with the OCI Streaming Service 82
      OCI Events Service 88
      Summary 91
      References 91
      Chapter 4 Understanding Container Engine for Kubernetes 93
      Monoliths and Microservices 93
      Containers 94
      Container Orchestration and Kubernetes 95
      Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes 96
      OCI-Managed Components and Customer-Managed Components 97
      Control Plane 97
      Data Plane 98
      Billable Components 99
      Kubernetes Concepts 100
      Cloud Controller Manager 101
      Nodes and Node Pools 102
      Node Pool Properties 103
      Worker Node Images and Shapes 103
      Kubernetes Labels 108
      SSH Keys 109
      Tagging Your Resources 110
      Creating a Cluster 110
      Quick Create Cluster Workflow 111
      Custom Create Cluster Workflow 113
      Using the OCI Command-Line Interface 117
      Using the Terraform Provider and Modules 122
      Automation and Terraform Code Generation 123
      Asynchronous Cluster Creation 124
      Cluster Topology Considerations 124
      Using Multiple Node Pools 124
      Scheduling Workloads on Specific Nodes 125
      Kubernetes Networking 127
      Container Network Interface (CNI) 127
      OCI VCN-Native Pod Networking CNI 129
      Flannel CNI 130
      Kubernetes Storage 130
      StorageClass: Flex Volume and CSI Plug-ins 131
      Updating the Default Storage Class 131
      File System Storage 133
      Kubernetes Load Balancer Support 137
      Working with the OCI Load Balancer Service 137
      SSL Termination with OCI Load Balancer 140
      Working with the OCI Network Load Balancer Service 142
      Specifying Reserved Public IP Addresses 144
      Commonly Used Annotations 144
      Understanding Security List Management Modes 146
      Using Node Label Selectors 147
      Security Considerations for Your Cluster 149
      Cluster Topology and Configuration Security Considerations 150
      Authorization Using Workload Identity and Instance Principls 156
      Securing Access to the Cluster 160
      OCI IAM and Kubernetes RBAC 161
      Federation with an IDP 162
      Summary 162
      References 163
      Chapter 5 Container Engine for Kubernetes in Practice 165
      Kubernetes Version Support 166
      Upgrading the Control Plane 167
      Upgrading the Data Plane 169
      Upgrading an Existing Node Pool 170
      Upgrading by Adding a Node Pool 173
      Alternative Host OS (Not Kubernetes Version) Upgrade Options 175
      Scaling a Cluster 175
      Manual Scaling 175
      Autoscaling 176
      Scaling Workloads and Infrastructure Together 194
      Autoscaler Best Practices 195
      Cluster Access and Token Generation 196
      Service Account Authentication 197
      Configuring DNS 199
      Configuring Node Local DNS Cache 201
      Configuring ExternalDNS 202
      Cluster Add-ons 203
      Configuring Add-ons 203
      Disabling Add-ons 205
      Observability: Prometheus and Grafana 205
      Monitoring Stack Components 205
      Installing the kube-prometheus-stack 205
      Operators and OCI Service Operator for Kubernetes 208
      Getting Started with Operators on OKE 209
      Operators for OCI, Oracle Database, and Oracle WebLogic 210
      Troubleshooting Nodes with Node Doctor 214
      Configuring SR-IOV Interfaces for Pods on OKE Using Multus 218
      Using Bare Metal Nodes 218
      Using Virtual Machine Nodes 226
      Summary 238
      References 239
      Chapter 6 Securing Your Workloads and Infrastructure 241
      Kubernetes Security Challenges 241
      Concepts of Kubernetes Security 242
      4Cs of Kubernetes Security 242
      Securing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) 243
      Private Clusters 244
      Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) with OCI IAM Groups 248
      Data Encryption and Key Management Service 250
      Audit Logging 253
      Security Zones 255
      Network Security Groups (NSGs) 256
      Web Application Firewall (WAF) 257
      Network Firewall 262
      Allowed Registries 264
      Cloud Guard 266
      Hardening Containers and OKE Worker Nodes 267
      Container Scanning 268
      Container Image Signing 270
      Center for Internet Security (CIS)
      Kubernetes Benchmarks 270
      Using SELinux with OKE 272
      Worker Nodes Limited Access 275
      Securing Your Workloads 275
      Security Context 275
      syscalls and seccomp 278
      Open Policy Agent (OPA) 280
      OPA Gatekeeper 283
      Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) 285
      Supporting Tools 287
      External Container Scanning Tools 287
      CIS-CAT Pro Assessor 287
      Kube-bench 289
      AppArmor 291
      Falco 293
      Tracee 293
      Trivy 294
      National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Kubernetes Benchmarks 294
      NIST Kubernetes Benchmarks 295
      National Checklist Program Repository 296
      National Vulnerability Database 296
      NIST SP 800-190 Application Container Security Guide 296
      Summary 296
      References 297
      Chapter 7 Serverless Platforms and Applications 299
      Container Instances 300
      Architecture 300
      Using Container Instances 301
      Serverless Functions 305
      OCI Functions 306
      Using OCI Functions 306
      Building Your First Function 308
      Adding an API Gateway 314
      Function Logs and Distributed Tracing 315
      Service Mesh 319
      Using the Service Mesh 320
      Adding a Service Mesh to an Application 321
      Summary 330
      References 330
      Chapter 8 Observability 331
      OCI Monitoring 331
      Alarms 336
      OCI Logging 338
      Service Logs 340
      Custom Logs 341
      Audit Logs 343
      Auditing OKE Activity 345
      Advanced Observability in OCI 347
      Logging Analytics 347
      Enabling and Using Logging Analytics 349
      Prometheus and Grafana with OKE 349
      Using the OCI DataSource Plug-ins for Grafana 353
      eBPF-Based Monitoring with Tetragon on OKE 353
      Tetragon: eBPF-Based Security Observability and Enforcement 354
      Running Tetragon on Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) 355
      Summary 359
      References 360
      Chapter 9 DevOps and Deployment Automation 361
      OCI DevOps Service 362
      Code Repositories 363
      Triggers 364
      Build Pipelines 364
      Artifacts 368
      Environments 370
      Deployment Pipelines 370
      Elastically Scaling Jenkins on Kubernetes 376
      Setting Up Jenkins on OKE 377
      GitOps with ArgoCD 380
      Setting Up Argo CD on OKE 381
      Summary 384
      References 384
      Chapter 10 Bringing It Together: MuShop 385
      Architecture 386
      Source Code Structure 388
      Services 390
      Storefront 390
      API 391
      Catalog 391
      Carts 392
      User 392
      Orders 393
      Fulfillment 393
      Payment 394
      Assets 394
      DBTools 394
      Edge Router 394
      Events 395
      Newsletter Subscription 395
      Load 395
      Building the Services 395
      Infrastructure Automation 398
      Helm Charts 399
      Utilities and Supporting Components 402
      Deploying MuShop 403
      Summary 405
      References 406


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