The recipes in this chapter assume that you have a functional Kubernetes cluster deployed by 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 chapter 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. All the commands are expected to function in a similar fashion.