Kubernetes

This 2026 edition of the best-selling Kubernetes book is fully updated for the latest versions of Kubernetes and the latest industry trends. You won't find a better and more up-to-date book on Kubernetes. Hand-crafted over the past 8 years by best-selling author Nigel Poulton. This book is a masterpiece.

You can read about Vault in an afternoon. You will still not be able to run it. Twenty-four chapters, each ending in a working lab on your own laptop — and five that ask you to break your setup on purpose, because nobody who has recovered a sealed cluster under pressure learned it from a reference manual.

Does Kubernetes feel overwhelming? This is the technical prequel you need. Stop copying Dockerfiles blindly and master the foundations: images, networks, volumes, and Docker Compose. The definitive guide to understanding containers and building the solid base every DevOps engineer needs.

Master Kubernetes health checks from the basics to production-grade reliability. Learn how probes really work, troubleshoot failures fast and build applications that recover automatically. With practical YAML, real-world scenarios and proven reliability patterns, this guide helps you keep Kubernetes workloads healthy when it matters most.

Most Kubernetes books teach you YAML. This one teaches you to build a datacenter.You start with #!/usr/bin/env bash. You finish with one command that provisions, reloads, and tears down a complete multi-service cluster. No magic. No black boxes. Just you, Bash, and the cloud-native platform you built yourself.

Modern cloud systems require automation, consistency, and reliability. GitOps With ArgoCD shows how to manage Kubernetes applications using Git as the single source of truth while enabling automated deployments, policy enforcement, and scalable multi-cluster operations.Learn how DevOps teams use ArgoCD to simplify continuous delivery, improve infrastructure visibility, and maintain secure and reproducible environments.

"Kubernetes is powerful—but when things break, do you know how to fix them?From CrashLoopBackOff to networking black holes, Kubernetes failures can cripple your applications. "Kubernetes Troubleshooting Guide" is your go-to resource for diagnosing and resolving issues fast. Whether you’re a DevOps engineer, SRE, or developer, this book arms you with practical debugging techniques, real-world scenarios, and proactive strategies to keep your clusters healthy.Stop guessing. Start fixing. Master Kubernetes troubleshooting—before your next outage."

Build a clear mental model of Kubernetes with illustrations, diagrams, small YAML examples, and practical kubectl commands. This beginner-focused guide connects core concepts to networking, storage, security, and everyday troubleshooting for systems engineers.

Twenty-four chapters, each ending in a working lab on your laptop. Perform an OpenID Connect login by hand, put Active Directory, kubectl and Vault behind one login, then take your own access away on purpose and get it back.

Diagnose, debug, and fix every Helm failure — 40+ real-world scenarios with battle-tested solutions. ⎈

Learn Kubernetes security through visual explanations of trust boundaries, access control, workloads, networks, and software supply chains.

Understand Argo CD and the GitOps model through clear diagrams and practical examples. Learn how reconciliation, sync policies, application health, access controls, and troubleshooting fit together.

Ingress-NGINX is retired and about half of all clusters still run it. This is the step-by-step playbook for moving production traffic to Kubernetes Gateway API: a verified annotation-by-annotation map (including every no-equivalent case and its workaround), a decision matrix for nine implementations, inventory scripts, zero-downtime cutover and rollback runbooks, and twelve before/after manifests validated against the real CRD schemas.

Den här boken lär oss Podman genom att faktiskt använda det, laboration för laboration, från vårt allra första podman run till en komplett, rootless produktionsmiljö som startar sig själv efter en omstart. Vi bygger egna images, kopplar ihop containrar över nätverk vi själva skapar, sätter upp persistent lagring för riktiga databaser och lär oss felsöka system som faktiskt gått sönder, med flit.

Dive into Docker & Kubernetes—no prior experience needed!From building your first container to deploying scalable applications, Docker & Kubernetes: A Beginner's Practical Guide gives you hands-on, ready-to-use commands to master containerization and orchestration. Start small, think big, and deploy like a pro!"