Recipes in this section assume that you have a functional Kubernetes cluster deployed following one of the recommended methods described in Chapter 1, Building Production-Ready Kubernetes Clusters.

The Kubernetes Operations tool kubectl will be used for the rest of the recipes in this section since it's the main command-line interface for running commands against Kubernetes clusters. If you are using a Red Hat OpenShift cluster, you can replace kubectl with oc and all commands are expected to function similarly.