Production Kubernetes

Preface

Kubernetes is a remarkably powerful technology and has achieved a meteoric rise in popularity. It has formed the basis for genuine advances in the way we manage software deployments. API-driven software and distributed systems were well established, if not widely adopted, when Kubernetes emerged. It delivered excellent renditions of these principles, which are foundational to its success, but it also delivered something else that is vital. In the recent past, software that autonomously converged on declared, desired state was possible only in giant technology companies with the most talented engineering teams. Now, highly available, self-healing, autoscaling software deployments are within reach of every organization, thanks to the Kubernetes project. There is a future in front of us where software systems accept broad, high-level directives from us and execute upon them to deliver desired outcomes by discovering conditions, navigating changing obstacles, and repairing problems without our intervention. Furthermore, these systems will do it faster and more reliably than we ever could with manual operations. Kubernetes has brought us all much closer to that future. However, that power and capability comes at the cost of some additional complexity. The desire to share our experiences helping others navigate that complexity is why we decided to write this book.

You should read this book if you want to use Kubernetes to build a production-grade application platform. If you ...