Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

I bought 3 different Kubernetes books before undertaking the task of setting up a test cluster for work and this book was hands down the most useful of the 3.

A very well written and in-depth introduction to using Kubernetes.

The book dives deep into core topics which make understanding kubernetes much easier from a beginners perspective. My main wish is that more focus was given to the internals, like etcd usage, so that we do not have to just 'trust the magic' as much. I also think that more visuals reiterating the hierarchy of objects would help new topics fit into the readers vision of kubernetes more effortlessly.

This is actually a great introduction to Kubernetes. After reading this I started looking for other books to dive deeper and realized how fortunate my decision was. Other books present the topics with no motivation or continuity between subjects, as if it’s a textbook for survey course in college that inherently bores people to death. Knowing the why each step of the way makes it more interesting, and it’s a shame that more people didn’t read a book like this before making their mark on the Kubernetes ecosystem. It’s a mess, and now I know one of the reasons why.On a more critical note, I found that many of the code examples were out of date and the text was poorly edited. The writing in the first several chapters was well thought out, but chapters 14 and 15 were obviously written by someone else.Overall there wasn’t anything I’d hoped for that I didn’t get from this book. Even more advanced subjects such as operators and Helm were touched on. It’s nice to know where everything fits before diving deep.

Clear and concise, doesn't include a lot of add-ons but discusses a few.

Flow of topics is well laid out, I am loving it. as others commented this book is for in depth understanding.I wish the book was updated as stuffs change in k8s world, I understand based on the published date the book was written with latest version then, though the concept is still valid but few commands I believe must be updated, not as a third edition but updates to this book, else I will have to invest in 3rd edt as well.

They start by describing “pods” which is good. But then they start talking a lot about “deployments” without even saying what they are (until chapter 10). Furthermore, much of the book relies on examples of what to do - rather than explanations of what the things are, this is very true around chapter 7 where they start giving them samples of “service discovery” stuff without a lot of context for what this stuff is.What it really lacked was any diagrams or pictures to show what they were actually talking about - logical relationships between things, etc.It seemed at this point the author stopped trying to “teach kubernettes concepts” and just started annotating their own workflow.

A considerable amount of this book is incorrect as of 2021. The examples don't work, and the github repo with examples hasn't been updated since 2017, even though the chapters have been shifted around in the interim. You'll wind up googling a lot, which is not what I want to do with an "up and running" book.Aside from being out of date, which is bound to happen with a fast-moving ecosystem, the authors seem to have the curse of knowledge, and their definitions of the core Kubernetes API objects are vague and provide little context.

it's a very good overview, you'll certainly need further books if you go depper

This is a very nicely composed book for a useful introduction to the container orchestration tool, Kubernetes. The main concepts or topics are separated out into small chapters. Each chapter starts with a general introduction to the topic, followed by some example code. I wanted a high-level understanding of the key concepts and methods that makes this tool function, and I am satisfied with the product.

Me esta encantando El libro apenas lo consegui y la forma de explicar es muy Clara lo recomiendo.

I find it a good and complete base introduction and reference post first read. Decent examples though raspberry cluster one is already a bit obsolete. But than this is it & cloud, everything is obsoluted in weeks

Kubernetes spiegato in modo chiaro e senza giri di parole; ho molto apprezzato che praticamente ogni tema include anche delle demo pratiche coi cui capire, in modo efficace, questo strumento.Non è necessaria alcuna esperienza su Kubernetes per comprendere il testo, ma a parer mio è importante avere una conoscenza di base di programmazione e comprensione dei container.Il libro spazia su tutti gli aspetti più importanti di Kubernetes e, senza dubbio, comunica in modo completo tutti gli aspetti più importanti.A parer mio, non è adatto per chi già conosce le caratteristiche principali di Kubernetes e desidera indagare aspetti più specifici, e.g. gestione dei dati e applicazioni stateful.