The Kubernetes Book

Very good introduction to the kubernetes world. For better learning, it is recommended to follow all the exercises on the book.

The book offers solid explanations to k8s concepts and architecture. It is repetitive at times, but there is no harm in that. I would've liked for it to be more in depth in certain chapters but overall it covered a good set of topics about k8s.

What a great book! It is very thorough and organized and easy to follow. There are a lot of images to help you understand the concepts. It has a lot of hands-on activities where you really learn stuff. I just used Docker Desktop on my personal PC and I was able to follow about 95% of the exercises (You need a cloud cluster for the other 5%, but you can just read the section and still learn a lot). I now know how Kubernetes works.

The book covers all of the essentials and goes in depth on many useful topics. I would highly recommend it. This is not the endgame book though, you will have to look for weird and specific stuff inside the Documentation or on Github, but it's a very solid quickstart and general overview, while going deep enough for you to understand how the essential things work. Some improvements I would suggest are (as a consumer I would definitely be willing to pay more in order to get these): - The `Jobs` feature is very useful on a day to day basis (processing), but it's only briefly mentioned in the book. - A practical chapter on Autoscaling and LoadBalancing with famous platforms such as AWS or Azure would be very valuable. - A chapter with the deployment of a small example project that would be close to production, end-to-end. Inside a chapter like this, a comprehensive and practical section on best practices would be very welcome (best practices are mentioned throughout the book, but having them streamlined would be much easier for the student).

A gem for learning Kubernetes. I highly recommend this book if you want to make sense of how distributed systems work (at least at the infraestructure level).

Great overview of Kubernetes for those of us that haven't been deep into the cloud. Beware: even though the description and images of this book describe the 2026 edition as of May, 2026, I received a 2023 edition. This older edition is missing the new chapter on the Gateway API which replaces Ingress and probably other aspects of the latest and greatest. You may want to consider other sources to fill in these details.

Great book to build that foundational knowledge. Very easy to read with excellent examples that you can follow along with to reinforce the knowledge and build some confidence in what was taught. I was able to take what I learned in this book and immediately apply it on my job. I will be referencing this book again and again.

Informative, and well organized, but falls short in a few areas: - Lots of typographical errors. - Overly verbose and repetitive. Some points are re-made 3 times in the same paragraph. - Overly informal writing style, accentuated by the excessive use of exclamation points. - Many examples refer to the readers as "Pluralsighters", presumably due to borrowing examples from the author's video courses. But this was a bit jarring, and left an unpolished feel. Most important, I found that it falls short in the area of content, by ending abruptly after explaining all of the high-level Kubernetes concepts (Pods, Services, ReplicaSets and Deployments), and doesn't expand any further. In particular, it doesn't explain how you might use multiple deployments together to deploy a production application (or whether this is even the preferred approach). It would also be greatly enhanced by including additional higher-level documentation and examples, such as: - How to deploy applications that have Pods with persistent dependencies (i.e. disk, IP addresses, etc) - How to handle backup and recovery of persistent storage in the context of Kubernetes - How to deploy applications with geographic redundancy in mind Overall, it's a good book, but it stops at explaining the Kubernetes tools, and doesn't expand enough into the larger context in which Kubernetes tools are typically used.

Il massimo per chi voglia comprendere le logiche di Kubernetes. Grande chiarezza espositiva, nonché nella struttura del libro e nell'ordine degli argomenti trattati. Come più volte rimarcato dallo stesso autore: per chi voglia approcciare il percorso di certificazione CKA, rimane essenziale "sporcarsi le mani" con esercitazioni pratiche. Ottimo libro.

Excellent livre sur le sujet. J'ai acheté plusieurs fois le livre papier pour profiter des nombreuses mises à jour de chaque édition. J'ai également eu un problème avec la MAJ de l'édition Kindle. Après avoir contacté l'auteur, celui-ci m'a gracieusement envoyé la nouvelle édition directement sur mon Kindle très rapidement. Je recommande ce livre sans hésiter.

El libro está escrito pensando para una audiencia amplia, con diferentes niveles de conocimiento, acompañando la teoría con analogías de nuestra vida cotidiana y con ejemplos prácticos que puedes aplicar directamente gracias al repositorio que te facilita. Si no tienes conocimientos previos, puede ser un gran punto de partida para introducirte en Kubernetes y salir con una idea muy clara de cómo funciona. Si ya tienes conocimientos previos, hay muchas cosas que ya conocerás, pero habrá otras que no (o incluso que no tenías muy afianzado). Que esté actualizado a la última versión es un gran plus para aquellos que perseguimos el CKAD ;)

This is an excellent book to quickly get up to speed with K8s. It may not make you an expert, but it will give you a solid understanding of the technology.

Well structured and explained, all the examples worked without problems, tons of useful information. i feel, I’m now well prepared to take next steps and jump right into it.