Kubernetes

Learn real DevOps by building a production-style environment on your laptop. No cloud bills or subscriptions. Just systems you control end-to-end.

Twenty-four chapters, twenty-three labs on your own laptop, and several that break Harbor on purpose. Install it on a VM and on Kubernetes, gate deployments on scans and signatures, back it up in an order you can defend — and become the person responsible for the registry, not just the one who installed it.

Learn Argo Rollouts through hands-on Kubernetes labs. Build canary and blue-green deployments, control traffic with Istio, validate releases with Prometheus, run Experiments, automate promotion and rollback, and manage progressive delivery with Argo CD and GitOps.

"Is your EKS cluster running on borrowed time?Every 4 months, Kubernetes releases a new version—and AWS only supports the last four. Falling behind isn’t just risky—it’s a ticking time bomb. Security vulnerabilities, unsupported workloads, and forced emergency upgrades can cripple your operations, costing you 3-5x more in downtime and stress.But what if you could upgrade your EKS clusters with zero downtime, zero stress, and zero surprises?In Amazon EKS Upgrade Playbook, you’ll uncover the step-by-step, battle-tested strategies to plan, execute, and validate upgrades like a pro—so you can stay ahead, avoid disasters, and deploy with confidence.Upgrade smarter. Upgrade safer. Upgrade now."

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.

Stop overload from becoming unbounded queues, goroutines, and downstream calls. Build bounded backpressure that fails predictably.

"Tired of manual server setups that feel like reinventing the wheel every time?What if you could write down your server settings once—like a recipe—and let the computer do the rest? No more ‘oops, I forgot that checkbox.’ No more ‘Why is Server 7 acting weird?’Config as Code is the DevOps secret to consistency, speed, and sanity. And this book is your backstage pass."

Another Production Field Manual: protect APIs before overload becomes an outage with rate limiting, throttling, and tenant fairness.

Learn how to stop retry storms, contain dependency failures, and make resilient microservice calls observable, bounded, and production-ready.

Prepare for Kubernetes platform engineering interviews like a Staff Engineer. Learn how controllers, informers, syncers, finalizers, API scalability and multi-tenancy behave in real systems, then put it all into practice with a hands-on workspace-syncer capstone project. A practical guide to reasoning, designing, debugging, and explaining Kubernetes control-plane systems.

Build and operate production AI platforms on Kubernetes. Learn to manage NVIDIA GPUs, serve and optimize LLMs with vLLM, run training and batch workloads, and design secure, observable, multi-tenant infrastructure for AI at scale.

Take Kubernetes beyond the basics and learn how to run clusters in production with confidence. Covering architecture, networking, security, observability, GitOps, and day-to-day operations, this practical guide is packed with hands-on examples, proven patterns, and real-world insights for managing Kubernetes at any scale.

"Your Kubernetes cluster is one expired certificate away from disaster. Are you ready?" Master Certificate Management in Kubernetes—automate, secure, and scale TLS like a pro. No more downtime, no more manual renewals. Just peace of mind.

What if learning Kubernetes felt like reading a story instead of a manual? Follow three engineers as they grow from a crashing monolith to a production-grade Kubernetes platform. Every concept taught through real problems, real YAML, and real solutions.