Chapter 1: Introduction to Kubernetes Infrastructure and Production-Readiness

With more and more organizations adopting Kubernetes for their infrastructure management, it is becoming the industry de facto standard for orchestrating and managing distributed applications both in the cloud and on premises.

Whether you are an individual contributor who is migrating their company's applications to the cloud or you are a decision-maker leading a cloud transformation initiative, you should plan the journey to Kubernetes and understand its challenges.

If this book has a core purpose, it is guiding you through the journey of building a production-ready Kubernetes infrastructure while avoiding the common pitfalls. This is our reason for writing about this topic, as we have witnessed failures and successes through the years of building and operating Kubernetes clusters on different scales. We are sure that you can avoid a lot of these failures, saving time and money, increasing reliability...