KubeSphere Administration and Deployment Guide

"KubeSphere Administration and Deployment Guide"
The "KubeSphere Administration and Deployment Guide" is an authoritative, comprehensive reference for architects, administrators, and DevOps professionals seeking to master cloud-native application delivery using KubeSphere. This guide meticulously unpacks platform architecture—including the modular core, multi-tenancy, and ecosystem integrations—while showcasing KubeSphere's ability to extend native Kubernetes with sophisticated CRDs, controllers, and seamless enterprise connectivity. With dedicated chapters on high availability, scalability, and integrated service mesh observability, readers will build a deep understanding of robust, production-grade cluster design and operations.
Through clear, practical examples, the book delivers actionable insights on cluster planning, installation strategies, and infrastructure scaling for both development and large-scale enterprise environments. It explores network models, multi-tenant policies, and persistent storage lifecycles, providing granular instruction on deploying and securing stateful workloads. Essential DevOps workflows are demystified, including CI/CD pipeline orchestration, application delivery via Helm and App Store, and advanced deployment patterns, empowering teams to implement automated, resilient, and compliant software delivery pipelines.
Security and compliance are at the core of this guide, with detailed treatments of authentication, RBAC, enterprise identity integration, hardening practices, network segmentation, and encryption. Extensive coverage of observability—encompassing logging, metrics, tracing, and customized dashboards—ensures platform health and operational transparency. Advanced operational chapters address upgrade management, cross-cluster federation, disaster recovery, and troubleshooting, equipping administrators with best practices for managing, scaling, and supporting KubeSphere in even the most demanding infrastructure landscapes.