Kubernetes in Action First Edition

Prior to purchasing this book, I made reasonable progress in standing-up and managing a kubernetes cluster in a test environment. I spent a good deal of time looking for free content of which some examples were really good and others, not so much. In particular, I struggled with VolumeClaims and PersistentVolumeClaims. And while I got the test environment working, I still lacked a fundamental understanding of how kubernetes worked 'under the covers'.Now that I need to deploy a k8 cluster in production, I knew I needed a solid support resource in order to be effective.I read all of the Amazon reviews for Kubernetes, and I purchased, "Kubernetes in Action". I'm presently working my way through the book and found all of the examples are introduced in a logical and consistent fashion. Most importantly, there is a very clear and concise explanations for why things work the way they do. And while kubernetes is an evolving orchestration framework, Luska points out these changes as well as calling out best practices.I'm very pleased with this purchase and now realize I should have done it sooner.If you are like me and want to have solid, hands-on working example along with a concise explanations, then this is the book for you.

This book has it all. It's conversational enough to be readable, but dense enough to be challenging. What you'll get out of it is what you put in. I suggest reading with a highlighter, because you're going to read things on practically every other page that practically jump off the page at you.It's a little old now. The book mostly talks about Kubernetes 1.7-1.9, but as of this writing we're on Kubernetes 1.16. I was looking at the author's twitter to see if he's working on a 2nd edition when I saw a comment he made about appreciating reviews. Well, I appreciate the intense labor you so obviously put into this book.I kept a strict pace of a chapter a day and it took me about 2 hours per chapter. Now, I was reading very carefully and trying to make sure I took in every word, so it might not take you as long. A friend of mine read it at the same time as me and he could sit down and read 4 chapters in a night, whereas... well... I couldn't really manage more than 2 in the same day without feeling like I didn't take it all in.The content is EXPERTLY organized. I'm a hawk for typos and I only found like 3 or 4 in all 559 pages. There were a few topics (mainly, GitOps workflows, Skaffold, Istio, etc.) that this book would really really benefit from touching on. Especially GitOps.

I've tried to learn k8s from references, documentations, and all other kind of books, online courses. But I always felt those resources are either out dated or consist of tiny pieces here and there. The learning curve of kubernetes comes from 1. the fast changing development, new features, etc 2. lack of guides that help dive from the surface to the depth. This book solved that problem by giving you a very good example through out the book: from the most basics you need to get something up and running, to all the aspects that you will have the consider in production. And finally, the book also spend a whole chapter to bring you back to the big picture, help you refresh your memory on all the stuffs you learned and put everything together. I like the writing style, and it is the best way to learn kubernetes or anything that's fast moving. Thanks Marko, for bringing such an amazing book to us!

Just received my copy and went briefly over the contents, I read some 50 pages thus far. I am familiar with the concepts of Kubernetes and this book takes my knowledge to the next level. But it can certainly be used for someone relatively new to this technology. The style is great: detailed, very clear and with many examples and drawings that are both helpful and to the point.No five stars yet as I do have a problem with getting my ebook - the first page says I am eligible for one but there are no codes attached to this page. As I understand from the manning website there should be codes on the inside of a double page but the page is clearly single with nothing inside. Could it be a misprint or anything? More people having this problem?

Many people say that textbooks have already been made obsolete in 2020. If there's no other, this is the book that proves such assumptions false.No online tutorials can come even close to the coverage of Kubernetes provided by this book. Online tutorials may show you how to do one thing, while this book teaches the philosophy, background and the design of Kubernetes, together with many real-life examples. No real knowledge can be achieved in some other way.There are many diagrams in the book, which makes the book a relatively quick read. Also, those diagrams can be used later as quick reminders.

Kubernetes books aren't all that common right now but I'd say this one is likely the most comprehensive of the lot. The inside cover contains what's covered in the book. This is very thoughtfully done in a manner that reduces the complexity of this beast to the following groups: Namespace, Workload Deployment, Services, Config, Storage. The author goes out of the way to include practical examples and sound reasons for the various component logic choices taken by Google engineers when designing Kubernetes. The book tends to reference the google cloud platform exclusively. But k8s is cloud agnostic (generally) so that should have zero bearing on your choice to own this book. There are also a broad range of other products/project/tools within this evolving ecosystem that really makes this work stand out.Short review: Once you are ready to really start using kubernetes beyond your home lab or POC project, get this book.