Rancher Platform Administration: Definitive Reference for Developers and Engineers

تأليف
- Richard Johnson
دار النشر
- HiTeX Press

لغات: الإنجليزية
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تصنيف: كتب واقعية

"Rancher Platform Administration"

"Rancher Platform Administration" is an authoritative guide for IT professionals and DevOps teams seeking to design, deploy, and scale enterprise Kubernetes environments with Rancher. This comprehensive book navigates through the intricacies of the Rancher ecosystem, beginning with in-depth explorations of its architecture, core components, and Kubernetes integration models. Through clear explanations of authentication, RBAC, API extension, service discovery, and advanced networking, readers gain a holistic understanding of how to optimize multi-cluster operations within modern cloud-native infrastructures.

From initial deployment planning to ongoing management, the book offers actionable guidance on sizing infrastructure, orchestrating secure installations, and minimizing downtime during upgrades—whether operating at single-node, high-availability, or multi-region scale. Best practices for automating installations, managing database backends, handling upgrades, and enforcing security are interwoven with advanced strategies for cluster provisioning, multi-tenancy, and robust access control. Readers will discover how to establish firm governance through policy-driven security, seamless identity integration, and comprehensive audit trails, all while leveraging modern tools for secrets and key management.

The latter chapters delve into critical operational concerns such as scalable networking architectures, centralized observability, logging, alerting, and disaster recovery. Emphasis is placed on optimizing resource usage, building resilient automation pipelines with GitOps, and ensuring compliance through hardening, vulnerability management, and zero trust principles. Finally, the book addresses the frontier of hybrid and multi-cloud operations—covering Rancher Fleet, global cluster federation, edge deployments, cost management, and the development of custom operators—equipping practitioners with the knowledge needed to manage, extend, and innovate within complex Rancher-powered environments at enterprise scale.

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