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 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.

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.

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.

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.

"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."

A controller is a promise you keep making. Learn when to build one, how to design for failure, and what it takes to own it.

This book teaches you to build and run one application together. We will be creating Azure Linux node pools with Bicep, debugging nodes with tdnf, shipping slim images, securing pods with workload identity, scaling with KEDA, patching without fear, monitoring with KQL, delivering through GitOps and even training a model on a GPU.Instead of a mysterious layer beneath your containers, it becomes a platform you understand, inspect and trust.

In this 2nd edition, I'm going to be working with you on a single app called OrderDesk. We'll build its inventory, roles and secrets, and then we'll patch its servers, provision its cloud resources and deploy it to Kubernetes. Later, we'll watch it with Prometheus, heal it with Event-Driven Ansible and diagnose its failures with playbooks that collect evidence in seconds. Then, in the last few chapters, we'll start inviting AI agents through tools and MCP servers, while approvals and check mode make sure that everyone keeps control of the decisions. You don't need to be a pro programmer to follow along.

Большинство книг по Kubernetes учат YAML. Эта учит строить дата-центр: вы начинаете с #!/usr/bin/env bash и приходите к одной команде, которая разворачивает, перезагружает и удаляет целый многосервисный кластер. Без магии и чёрных ящиков.

A maioria dos livros de Kubernetes ensina YAML. Este ensina a construir um datacenter: você começa com #!/usr/bin/env bash e termina com um comando que provisiona, recarrega e desmonta um cluster completo. Sem mágica, sem caixas-pretas.

대부분의 쿠버네티스 책은 YAML을 가르칩니다. 이 책은 데이터센터를 만드는 법을 가르칩니다. #!/usr/bin/env bash로 시작해, 완전한 멀티 서비스 클러스터를 프로비저닝하고 다시 불러오고 해체하는 명령 하나로 끝냅니다. 마법도 블랙박스도 없습니다.

多くのKubernetesの本はYAMLを教えます。この本はデータセンターの作り方を教えます。#!/usr/bin/env bashから始めて、完全なマルチサービスクラスターを構築・再読み込み・破棄する1つのコマンドにたどり着きます。魔法もブラックボックスもありません。

La plupart des livres Kubernetes vous apprennent le YAML. Celui-ci vous apprend à construire un datacenter : vous partez de #!/usr/bin/env bash et vous finissez avec une commande qui provisionne, recharge et détruit un cluster complet. Pas de magie, pas de boîtes noires.

La mayoría de los libros de Kubernetes te enseñan YAML. Este te enseña a construir un centro de datos: empiezas con #!/usr/bin/env bash y terminas con un comando que aprovisiona, recarga y desmonta un clúster completo. Sin magia, sin cajas negras.