Preface

The aim of this book is to give you the knowledge and the broad set of tools needed to build cloud-native applications using Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a powerful technology that gives engineers powerful tools to build cloud-native platforms using containers. The project itself is constantly evolving and contains many different tools to tackle common scenarios.

For the layout of this book, rather than sticking to any one niche area of the Kubernetes toolset, we will first give you a thorough summary of the most important parts of default Kubernetes functionality – giving you all the skills you need in order to run applications on Kubernetes. Then, we'll give you the tools you need in order to deal with security and troubleshooting for Kubernetes in a day 2 scenario. Finally, we'll go past the boundaries of Kubernetes itself and look at some powerful patterns and technologies to build on top of Kubernetes – such as service meshes and serverless.