Books

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.

Build. Deploy. Scale.Take your Java skills to the cloud-native level with Hands-On Java with Kubernetes. From your first Spring Boot or Quarkus app to production-ready deployments with CI/CD, observability, and service mesh—you’ll learn by doing, not just reading. Ideal for developers who want to master Kubernetes without getting bogged down in YAML configuration.

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.

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.

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.

An enterprise-focused guide to building a safe, governed AI SRE agent skill that reviews Kubernetes platforms on Talos Linux. Read-only by default, auditable, and grounded in evidence rather than guesswork.

Kubernetes exposes plenty of state, but operators still have to reconstruct operational meaning from scattered Pods, Services, EndpointSlices, Events, PVCs, owner references, and status fields. This ebook uses `kctx`, a small read-only Kubernetes context engine, to show how deterministic entities, relations, signals, graphs, namespace snapshots, CRD adapters, and stable JSON contracts can turn raw cluster data into reusable context for humans, tools, and AI agents. It is written for SREs, platform engineers, Kubernetes operators, infrastructure developers, and AI tooling builders who want better primitives than raw YAML and improvised troubleshooting pipelines.

Go from an empty cluster to a self-deploying GitOps pipeline, doing every step yourself: Applications, sync policy, hooks, RBAC, Helm, ApplicationSets, and a setup that ships every branch on push. You finish with a pipeline you can explain line by line, not a demo you watched run.

大多数 Kubernetes 书籍教你 YAML。这本书教你构建一个数据中心。 你从 #!/usr/bin/env bash 开始。最终用一个命令就能配置、重载和拆除一个完整的多服务集群。没有魔法。没有黑盒。只有你、Bash，以及你亲手构建的云原生平台。

Build a cloud-native distributed system in Go with authentication, databases, Kafka, gRPC, circuit breakers, and distributed tracing. Each chapter teaches a pattern and extracts it into a reusable platform SDK. By the final chapter, you'll have six deployable services, a complete platform SDK, and the patterns to build the next one faster.

Containers without CNIs are like cars without roads—going nowhere fast. Unlock the secret to seamless container networking with this no-nonsense guide. From Docker Swarm to Kubernetes, learn how to choose, deploy, and master CNI plugins like a pro. No fluff. Just the tools to build networks that actually work.

Something is broken. The clock is ticking. Where do you even start?Every engineer who works with containers knows that moment — the deployment is down, the logs are cryptic, and docker ps is showing something you didn't expect. You know the tools. You just need a clear head and a logical path forward.That's exactly what this book is.The Practitioner's Guide to Docker & Kubernetes Troubleshooting skips the introductory fluff and gets straight to the part where things are on fire. It's organized around symptoms — what you're actually seeing — not around how Docker or Kubernetes happens to be architected. Every chapter gives you a decision tree: here's the status, here's what it means, here's the command, here's the fix.Whether you're chasing a CrashLoopBackOff at midnight, trying to figure out why two containers can't talk to each other, or untangling a Kubernetes node that just went NotReady — this guide has the exact path through it.Covers Docker Engine · Docker Swarm · Kubernetes From single containers to multi-node clusters. From image pull failures to PVC stuck in Terminating.No padding. No prerequisites lecture. Just the guide you wish you'd had the last time something broke. Tight, benefit-led, and speaks directly to the frustration your readers already feel. Works well as Leanpub's "About This Book" blurb.

Learn how to build Kubernetes Operators from scratch using Kubebuilder, step by step. You will create real controllers, work with CRDs, and understand how reconciliation works in practice. By the end, you’ll know how to design, test, and run your custom operator.