Kubernetes is the operating system of the cloud native world, providing a reliable and scalable platform for running containerized workloads. In this friendly, pragmatic book, cloud experts John Arundel and Justin Domingus show you what Kubernetes can do-and what you can do with it.
You'll learn all about the Kubernetes ecosystem, and use battle-tested solutions to everyday problems. You'll build, step by step, an example cloud native application and its supporting infrastructure, along with a development environment and continuous deployment pipeline that you can use for your own applications.

Understand containers and Kubernetes from first principles; no experience necessary

Run your own clusters or choose a managed Kubernetes service from Amazon, Google, and others

Use Kubernetes to manage resource usage and the container lifecycle

Optimize clusters for cost, performance, resilience, capacity, and scalability

Learn the best tools for developing, testing, and deploying your applications

Apply the latest industry practices for security, observability, and monitoring

Adopt DevOps principles to help make your development teams lean, fast, and effective