Kubernetes Recipes: Your Practical Guide to Mastering Container Orchestration
Tired of "hello world" tutorials? Dive deep into production-grade Kubernetes with "Kubernetes Recipes," the ultimate hands-on guide for developers, operators, and DevOps professionals.
This comprehensive book by Luca Berton and Grzegorz Stencel is designed to bridge the gap between basic concepts and real-world engineering challenges. Whether you're deploying on bare metal, in the cloud, or on a hybrid infrastructure, these practical, standalone chapters provide the solutions you need to build, scale, and manage your containerized applications with confidence.
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Inside "Kubernetes Recipes," you'll discover:
  • Chapter 1: Getting Started: Launch a Kubernetes cluster in minutes on any OS with tools like kubectl, k3s, Minikube, and KinD. You'll even find walkthroughs for high-availability, hybrid, and Raspberry Pi clusters.
  • Chapter 2: Configuring Stateless Applications: Master the essentials of deploying lightweight services, including namespaces, multi-container Pods, and resource limits to keep your applications running smoothly.
  • Chapter 3: Configuring Stateful Applications: Learn how to manage databases and other stateful workloads with practical examples for PostgreSQL, including persistent volume claims, backups, and migrations.
  • Chapter 4: Kubernetes on Cloud Providers: Avoid vendor lock-in with step-by-step guides for GKE Autopilot, AKS, EKS, DigitalOcean, and more, using the CLI or Terraform.
  • Chapter 5: Developer Experience: Supercharge your workflow with tips for the CLI, Helm, Kustomize, and integrations with popular tools like Lens IDE and VS Code.
  • Chapter 6: Scaling & Resiliency: Implement advanced scaling strategies with HPA, VPA, and KEDA, and learn zero-downtime rollout techniques like blue-green and canary deployments.
  • Chapter 7: Storage: Get a deep understanding of persistent data in a cloud-native world, with end-to-end walkthroughs for NFS, EFS, Azure Disks, and more. Download a FREE sample of this chapter: https://kubernetes.recipes/
  • Chapter 8: Networking: Go beyond the basics to master traffic management, security, and observability with Ingress, Istio, Cert-Manager, and ExternalDNS.
  • Chapter 9: Performance Observability: Build a unified observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Jaeger to quickly troubleshoot any issue.
  • Chapter 10: Control-Plane Admin & Helm: Operate your clusters like a pro with a deep dive into the API-server, etcd, and advanced Helm techniques.
  • Chapter 11: Security: Implement robust security practices with Pod Security Admission, AppArmor, Seccomp, and RBAC walkthroughs.
  • Chapter 12: Emerging & Advanced Concepts: Stay ahead of the curve with insights into FaaS, eBPF, Cilium, WASM, and AI/ML pipelines on Kubernetes.
  • Chapter 13: Best Practices: Distill years of experience into practical checklists for GitOps, capacity planning, health checks, and cost control.
  • Chapter 14: Additional Resources: Connect with the cloud-native community and discover the business case for Kubernetes.
About the Authors:
Luca Berton is a seasoned IT Infrastructure Expert with over 15 years of experience at companies like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Red Hat. He is a specialist in Infrastructure Hardening and Automation and a passionate open-source enthusiast.
Grzegorz Stencel is a versatile technologist and Staff Engineer at JPMorgan Chase with 17 years of experience as a Linux admin. His expertise spans networks, cybersecurity, and programming, and he holds a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certificate.
Ready to elevate your Kubernetes skills?
"Kubernetes Recipes" is your essential field manual to the cloud-native ecosystem. Each chapter is packed with real-world YAML files and practical walkthroughs that you can immediately apply to your projects.
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