Kubernetes Cookbook: Building Cloud Native Applications

Very basic collection of commands. Not much explanation of why they should run, whatnthey doing. Very basic knowledge is given. This should be a free pamphlet given out to generate sales leads or maybe it is? Dont buy.

Thanks a lot to Sebastien Goasguen and Michael Hausenblas. I finally finished the last 1/2 (ch. 8-14) of their k8s cookbook. I like their easy examples and then a lot of good references at the end of each section to let you read deeper and more at different k8s official docs and other posts !Learned many, e.g. how to do secrets, e.g. configmaps, sealed secrets, autoscaling (HPA, VPA), security (RBAC, roles/resources/rolebinding), monitoring/logging (EFK, Liveness/Readiness Probes, heapster, Prometheus), *Troubleshooting* (I like this most because of background! e.g. kubectl label pods xxx --overwrite, kubectl proxy to access/test locally, kubectl get po /xxx -o json | jq xxx, OODA, kubelet, drain), developing k8s (compile from sources, python client, CRDs), helm (how to create my own helm charts and packages), kompose (to convert Docker compose to k8s files), kubicorn (to create k8s cluster on AWS), kubeless for serverless !

Kubernetes has really become the de facto container fleet management utility for a lot of large scale deployments. This book really helps readers with basic kubernetes understanding to step it up a notch. I’m a big believer in learning by doing, this cookbook isn’t a step by step guide but will act more as a very useful reference guide.I recommended sampling a few pages of the book to understand if it’s for your current experience level.

I actually work in the kubernetes ecosystem (no conflict of interest). This book is a great step-by-step guide, but as such is at risk as Kubernetes evolves (specifically the best practice for provisioning k8s clusters changes often). Try a sample and see if it's right for you, but I found it to be clear, straightforward and useful.

As a technology consultant specializing in computer forensics, I need to have a very broad knowledge of Information Technology. I need to at least know about new technologies, methodologies, protocols, platforms and the like. Over the past decade or so, there has been an explosion of invention and innovation. Kubernetes is one of those developments. Surprisingly, the authors never seem to explain what Kubernetes is: they take it for granted that you know. Wikipedia describes Kubernetes as “an open-source container-orchestration system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation”. RedHat makes it even simpler: Kubernetes is “an open source platform that automates Linux container operations. It eliminates many of the manual processes involved in deploying and scaling containerized applications. In other words, you can cluster together groups of hosts running Linux containers, and Kubernetes helps you easily and efficiently manage those clusters. These clusters can span hosts across public, private, or hybrid clouds“. Amazingly enough, I actually understand the second definition. With that understanding, this book becomes much easier to grasp and the recipes provided here would be very helpful as levers to quickly8 understand and implement Kubernetes. I read one remark that Kubernetes could be learned in three or four hours. Having gone through this book, I believe this to be true if – and it is a very big if – you have a thorough grounding in Linux and cloud services. Otherwise, it’s going to take you a much longer time to even get to the point of being able to approach Kubernetes. I am not an expert, but I know enough to feel my way around. From that admittedly limited perspective, I think this will prove to be a valuable resource to someone with the requisite knowledge.Jerry

Cookbooks aren’t something you read through in one go, you go back to them when you hit the issue they solve. Seems to have some useful recipes, though it was a bit thin for the price.

Really good introduction to Kubernetes. My only criticism would be it could be longer and include reference to a more in-depth troubleshooting section. However it is still a worthwhile purchase.

The book arrived in the estimated time, I am excited to to start to read it.I like this book in the way that it give you great recipes to build and understand the basics of Kubernetes.