To get the most out of this book

Throughout this book, you will run commands and use command-line tools. We recommend you use a Mac or Linux workstation, such as Fedora or Ubuntu – although some of the CLI tools also have versions for Windows, the command examples used in this book assume the usage of a Linux workstation, and Mac should also work fine.

For some sections of this book, an AWS account is necessary; however, it should not be difficult to adapt the examples for other cloud providers. You can sign up for a free trial on AWS here: https://aws.amazon.com/.

Although we have done our best to make this book as didactic and inclusive as possible, you will probably get more out of it if you already have a basic knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes – no advanced knowledge is needed though.