The Kubernetes Book
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The Kubernetes Book

About the Book

🚀 The #1 Best-Selling Kubernetes book –Fully Updated for 2025! 🚀

For nearly a decade, The Kubernetes Book has been the go-to resource for developers, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals looking to master Kubernetes. With thousands of reviews and a track record as the most popular Kubernetes book, this Amazon bestseller is the ultimate guide to Kubernetes mastery.

What’s New in the 2025 Edition?

✅ All content & examples updated for the latest versions of Kubernetes

✅ Native sidecar containers with hands-on examples

✅ Wasm integration—build & deploy WebAssembly apps on Kubernetes

✅ Real-world node failure scenarios to enhance troubleshooting skills

✅ Simplified cluster setup for both cloud-based & local environments

Why Learn Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is the foundation of modern cloud computing, and demand for Kubernetes expertise is at an all-time high. Whether you’re running production workloads in the cloud or experimenting locally, this book equips you with the skills needed to succeed.

What You’ll Learn:

✔️ Set up Kubernetes clusters (for free!)

✔️ Understand Kubernetes architecture, scheduling, and networking

✔️ Master Pods, Deployments, Services, StatefulSets, Ingress, and more

✔️ Deploy Wasm applications to Kubernetes

✔️ Gain real-world troubleshooting & security skills

✔️ Demystify the Kubernetes API, service discovery, and load balancing

✔️ Learn Kubernetes jargon-free, with practical, hands-on examples

Who Is This Book For?

🔹 Developers & DevOps Engineers – Want to level up your containerization and cloud-native skills? This book has you covered.

🔹 IT Professionals – Need Kubernetes knowledge for managing cloud infrastructure? This book delivers exactly what you need.

Why This Book?

📖 Most comprehensive Kubernetes guide—trusted by thousands of professionals

🛠️ Packed with examples—not just theory, but practical hands-on learning

🚀 Covers the latest Kubernetes features—so you stay ahead of the curve

Master Kubernetes faster and more efficiently than ever before. Get your copy today and take your cloud-native skills to the next level!

Translations

About the Author

Nigel Poulton
Nigel Poulton

About the authors


I’d like to thank Pushkar for his writing the security chapters. He approached me at

a KubeCon and asked if he could contribute some content on real-world security. Collaborating on content isn’t something I’ve done before, and I tried to tell him “no thanks”. However, he was keen, so we made it happen. To be clear, the technical content for the security chapters is all Pushkar’s. I just tweaked the writing style so the book has a consistent feel.


Author: Nigel Poulton (@nigelpouton)


Nigel is a techoholic who spends his life creating books, training videos, and other stuff that makes learning Kubernetes less scary. He’s the author of best-selling books on Docker and Kubernetes, as well as the most popular online training videos on the same topics. He’s also a Docker Captain. Prior to all of this, Nigel held various senior infrastructure roles at large enterprises (mainly banks).


When he’s not playing with technology, he’s dreaming about it. When he’s not dreaming about it, he’s reading and watching scifi. He wishes he lived in the future so he could explore space-time, universes, and tons of other mind-blowing stuff. He likes cars, Formula One, golf, football (soccer), and food. He has a fabulous wife and three epic children.


Contributing author: Pushkar Joglekar


Pushkar is currently working as a Security Engineer @ VMware Tanzu to help make Kubernetes secure-by-default, for all. In the last few years, he’s built multiple “secure by design” production container deployments for a Fortune 500 company and is an active contributor in the CNCF security community.

When not securing containers, he spends his time exploring neighborhood bike trails and capturing beautiful sunsets through his camera while sipping home-made masala ginger chai. He lives with his wonderful wife, who happens to be the real engineer among them.

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Table of Contents

  • About the authors
    • Author: Nigel Poulton
    • Contributing author: Pushkar Joglekar
  • 0: Preface
    • Paperbacks, hardbacks, eBooks, audio, and translations
    • The sample app and GitHub repo
    • Windows users
    • Terminology and responsible language
    • Feedback
  • 1: Kubernetes primer
    • Important Kubernetes background
    • Kubernetes: the operating system of the cloud
    • Chapter summary
  • 2: Kubernetes principles of operation
    • Kubernetes from 40K feet
    • Control plane and worker nodes
    • Packaging apps for Kubernetes
    • The declarative model and desired state
    • Pods
    • Deployments
    • Service objects and stable networking
    • Chapter summary
  • 3: Getting Kubernetes
    • Install everything with Docker Desktop
    • Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)
    • Build a Kubernetes cluster in the Linode Cloud
    • Configure kubectl
    • Test your LKE cluster
    • More about kubectl and your kubeconfig file
    • Chapter summary
  • 4: Working with Pods
    • Pod theory
    • Multi-container Pods
    • Hands-on with Pods
    • Clean up
    • Chapter Summary
  • 5: Virtual clusters with Namespaces
    • Intro to Namespaces
    • Namespace use cases
    • Default Namespaces
    • Creating and managing Namespaces
    • Deploying objects to Namespaces
    • Clean up
    • Chapter Summary
  • 6: Kubernetes Deployments
    • Deployment theory
    • Create a Deployment
    • Manually scale the app
    • Perform a rolling update
    • Perform a rollback
    • Clean up
    • Chapter summary
  • 7: Kubernetes Services
    • Service Theory
    • Hands-on with Services
    • Clean up
    • Chapter Summary
  • 8: Ingress
    • Setting the Scene for Ingress
    • Ingress architecture
    • Hands-on with Ingress
    • Clean up
    • Chapter summary
  • 9: Wasm on Kubernetes
    • Wasm Primer
    • Understanding Wasm on Kubernetes
    • Hands-on with Wasm on Kubernetes
    • Chapter Summary
  • 10: Service discovery deep dive
    • Setting the scene
    • The service registry
    • Service registration
    • Service discovery
    • Service discovery and Namespaces
    • Troubleshooting service discovery
    • Clean up
    • Chapter summary
  • 11: Kubernetes storage
    • The big picture
    • Storage Providers
    • The Container Storage Interface (CSI)
    • The Kubernetes persistent volume subsystem
    • Dynamic provisioning with Storage Classes
    • Hands-on
    • Clean up
    • Chapter Summary
  • 12: ConfigMaps and Secrets
    • The big picture
    • ConfigMap theory
    • Hands-on with ConfigMaps
    • Hands-on with Secrets
    • Clean up
    • Chapter Summary
  • 13: StatefulSets
    • StatefulSet theory
    • Hands-on with StatefulSets
    • Clean up
    • Chapter Summary
  • 14: API security and RBAC
    • API security big picture
    • Authentication
    • Authorization (RBAC)
    • Admission control
    • Chapter summary
  • 15: The Kubernetes API
    • Kubernetes API big picture
    • The API server
    • The API
    • Chapter summary
  • 16: Threat modeling Kubernetes
    • Threat modeling
    • Spoofing
    • Tampering
    • Repudiation
    • Information Disclosure
    • Denial of Service
    • Elevation of privilege
    • Chapter summary
  • 17: Real-world Kubernetes security
    • Security in the software delivery pipeline
    • Workload isolation
    • Identity and access management (IAM)
    • Security monitoring and auditing
    • Real-world example
    • Chapter summary
  • Terminology
  • Outro and what next

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