Kubernetes Best Practices, 2nd Edition

Preface

Who Should Read This Book

Kubernetes is the de facto standard for cloud native development. It is a powerful tool that can make your next application easier to develop, faster to deploy, and more reliable to operate. However, unlocking the power of Kubernetes requires using it correctly. This book is intended for anyone who is deploying real-world applications to Kubernetes and is interested in learning patterns and practices they can apply to the applications that they build on top of Kubernetes.

Importantly, this book is not an introduction to Kubernetes. We assume that you have a basic familiarity with the Kubernetes API and tools, and that you know how to create and interact with a Kubernetes cluster. If you are looking to learn Kubernetes, there are numerous great resources out there, such as Kubernetes: Up and Running (O’Reilly), that can give you an introduction.

Instead, this book is a resource for anyone who wants to dive deep on how to deploy specific applications and workloads on Kubernetes. It should be useful to you whether you are about to deploy your first application onto Kubernetes or you’ve been using Kubernetes for years.

Why We Wrote This Book

Between the four of us, we have significant experience helping a wide variety of users deploy their applications onto Kubernetes. Through this experience, we have seen where people struggle, and we have helped them find their way to success. When sitting down to write this book, we attempted to capture these ...