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Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the US within 10-15 business days

Premium: Trackable Delivery to most addresses in the US within 3-8 business days

UK:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
Shipments are not trackable

Premium: Trackable delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 3-4 business days!
Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

Economy: Can deliver to P. O. Boxes and private residences.
Trackable service with delivery to addresses in Australia only.
Delivery time ranges from 7-9 business days for VIC and 8-10 business days for Interstate metro
Delivery time is up to 15 business days for remote areas of WA, NT & QLD.

Premium: Delivery to addresses in Australia only
Trackable delivery to most P. O. Boxes and private residences in Australia within 4-5 days based on the distance to a destination following dispatch.

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Disclaimer:
All orders received before 5 PM U.K time would start printing from the next business day. So the estimated delivery times start from the next day as well. Orders received after 5 PM U.K time (in our internal systems) on a business day or anytime on the weekend will begin printing the second to next business day. For example, an order placed at 11 AM today will begin printing tomorrow, whereas an order placed at 9 PM tonight will begin printing the day after tomorrow.

Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

Afghanistan
American Samoa
Belarus
Brunei Darussalam
Central African Republic
The Democratic Republic of Congo
Eritrea
Guinea-bissau
Iran
Lebanon
Libiya Arab Jamahriya
Somalia
Sudan
Russian Federation
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Venezuela

What is custom duty/charge?

Customs duty are charges levied on goods when they cross international borders. It is a tax that is imposed on imported goods. These duties are charged by special authorities and bodies created by local governments and are meant to protect local industries, economies, and businesses.

Do I have to pay customs charges for the print book order?

The orders shipped to the countries that are listed under EU27 will not bear custom charges. They are paid by Packt as part of the order.

List of EU27 countries: www.gov.uk/eu-eea:

A custom duty or localized taxes may be applicable on the shipment and would be charged by the recipient country outside of the EU27 which should be paid by the customer and these duties are not included in the shipping charges been charged on the order.

How do I know my custom duty charges?

The amount of duty payable varies greatly depending on the imported goods, the country of origin and several other factors like the total invoice amount or dimensions like weight, and other such criteria applicable in your country.

For example:

If you live in Mexico, and the declared value of your ordered items is over $ 50, for you to receive a package, you will have to pay additional import tax of 19% which will be $ 9.50 to the courier service.
Whereas if you live in Turkey, and the declared value of your ordered items is over € 22, for you to receive a package, you will have to pay additional import tax of 18% which will be € 3.96 to the courier service.

How can I cancel my order?

Cancellation Policy for Published Printed Books:

You can cancel any order within 1 hour of placing the order. Simply contact customercare@packt.com with your order details or payment transaction id. If your order has already started the shipment process, we will do our best to stop it. However, if it is already on the way to you then when you receive it, you can contact us at customercare@packt.com using the returns and refund process.

Please understand that Packt Publishing cannot provide refunds or cancel any order except for the cases described in our Return Policy (i.e. Packt Publishing agrees to replace your printed book because it arrives damaged or material defect in book), Packt Publishing will not accept returns.

What is your returns and refunds policy?

Return Policy:

We want you to be happy with your purchase from Packtpub.com. We will not hassle you with returning print books to us. If the print book you receive from us is incorrect, damaged, doesn't work or is unacceptably late, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com with the order number and issue details as explained below:

If you ordered (eBook, Video or Print Book) incorrectly or accidentally, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com within one hour of placing the order and we will replace/refund you the item cost.
Sadly, if your eBook or Video file is faulty or a fault occurs during the eBook or Video being made available to you, i.e. during download then you should contact Customer Relations Team within 14 days of purchase on customercare@packt.com who will be able to resolve this issue for you.
You will have a choice of replacement or refund of the problem items.(damaged, defective or incorrect)
Once Customer Care Team confirms that you will be refunded, you should receive the refund within 10 to 12 working days.
If you are only requesting a refund of one book from a multiple order, then we will refund you the appropriate single item.
Where the items were shipped under a free shipping offer, there will be no shipping costs to refund.

On the off chance your printed book arrives damaged, with book material defect, contact our Customer Relation Team on customercare@packt.com within 14 days of receipt of the book with appropriate evidence of damage and we will work with you to secure a replacement copy, if necessary. Please note that each printed book you order from us is individually made by Packt's professional book-printing partner which is on a print-on-demand basis.

What tax is charged?

Currently, no tax is charged on the purchase of any print book (subject to change based on the laws and regulations). A localized VAT fee is charged only to our European and UK customers on eBooks, Video and subscriptions that they buy. GST is charged to Indian customers for eBooks and video purchases.

What payment methods can I use?

You can pay with the following card types:

Visa Debit
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MasterCard
PayPal

What is the delivery time and cost of print books?

Shipping Details

USA:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the US within 10-15 business days

Premium: Trackable Delivery to most addresses in the US within 3-8 business days

UK:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
Shipments are not trackable

Premium: Trackable delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 3-4 business days!
Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

Afghanistan
American Samoa
Belarus
Brunei Darussalam
Central African Republic
The Democratic Republic of Congo
Eritrea
Guinea-bissau
Iran
Lebanon
Libiya Arab Jamahriya
Somalia
Sudan
Russian Federation
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Venezuela

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Nicolas Gabriel Schenker Apr 24, 2022

Die Autoren haben keine Mühe gescheut, ein grossartiges und umfassendes Werk über Kubernetes zu erstellen. Die Angehensweise ist didaktisch klug und gut nachvollziehbar. Das Buch eignet isch vor allem für diejenigen unter Euch, die schon etwas Erfahrung mit Docker Container und eventuell sogar mit Kubernetes haben, und nun Ihr wissen vertiefen wollen. Dabei sind vor allem Entwickler, DevOps und Operations Ingenieure angesprochen. Die Autoren haben darauf geachtet, alle Elemente, die sie vorstellen mit nachvollziehbaren Beispielen zu untermauern. Besonders toll ist auch, dass die vollständig gemanagten hosted Kubernetes Services von den grossen drei Cloud Anbietern vollständig beschrieben werden. Ist es doch in der Praxis so, dass es für die meisten Unternehmen sinnlos ist einen Kubernetes Cluster selber zu erstellen und verwalten. Das bring der Firma gar keinen Mehrwert. Lieber sollen sich dessen Entwickler, DevOps und Operations Ingenieure darauf konzentrieren gute Anwendung zu schreiben, die dann auf einem fully managed Cluster ausgeführt werden.Ich werde dieses Buch als persönliches Nachschlagewerk gerne weiter verwenden und es auch meinen Mitarbeitern herzlich empfehlen.Als Autor von mehreren Büchern über Docker und Kubernetes habe ich Hochachtung für die hochwertige Qualität, die die Autoren geliefert haben. Als Experte für Docker und Kubernetes habe sogar ich noch einige neue Dinge gelernt. Ich kann also das Buch wärmstens empfehlen.

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Walter Lee Mar 27, 2022

680 pages from basics to advanced Kubernetes topics. I am CKA/S so skip some basics in the beginning and still found many useful info inside. It covers Kubernetes services in ALL 3 MAJOR CLOUDS, e.g. AWS EKS, GCP GKE and Azure AKS. In particular, I like most: Azure AD RBAC for AKS, Azure Application Gateway Ingress controller for AKS, Multi-container patterns, Difference btw. Labels and Annotations, How to spin up EKS, AKS and GKE and enable auto-scaling, ...etc. Good "Bible" type of reference on your desktop to look up this and that for different cloud Kubernetes services !

Prashant L May 12, 2022

This book covers everything you need to know about Kubernetes. I have been using Kubernetes for some time, so I skipped the initial chapters. One of the major highlights of the book does not only cover the major cloud providers AWS, GCP, and Azure, but it also helps you get started with tools like kind, which helps you set up your Kubernetes cluster in minutes. I really like chapters like Running Production Grade Kubernetes Workloads which are useful when setting up a production Kubernetes cluster. Also, the authors did a great job in explaining complex topics like Statefulsets.Some of the improvements I want to see in the book is the introduction to the Docker chapter. This Bible assumes people should know Docker's knowledge, but a good introductory chapter will help new readers. Also, concepts like jobs and cronjobs are introduced early, which I believe deserves its own chapter, and a new reader will give sometime before digesting this new concept.Overall I will highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to expand its Kubernetes knowledge.

engineering_guy Apr 28, 2022

This is literally the only book you will need to start from scratch working with K8s and be ready to work with Kubernetes on cloud platforms. Starting with containerized app management explaining the responsibilities of each component in K8s, setting up Amazon EKS, Google GKE, and Microsoft AKS, deploying with Helm Charts, working with advanced techniques for Pod scheduling and auto-scaling the cluster as well as traffic routing and many more.I highly recommend this book to Cloud Architects, Migration or Solution Developers that want to make an extra step in DevOps and understand not only how to implement but also what needs to be monitored from a CloudOps perspective.

Allan Costa Aug 27, 2023

This book was one of the best that I read about kubernetes. And I have been reading a lot about it. It is true that it has many typos and it should be upgraded but the material is really great. The authors should upgrade it. Really great!

The Kubernetes Bible: The definitive guide to deploying and managing Kubernetes across major cloud platforms

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