Who this book is for

We created this book to help DevOps teams to expand their skills beyond the basics of Kubernetes. It was created from the years of experience we have working with clusters in multiple enterprise environments.

There are many books available that introduce Kubernetes and the basics of installing clusters, creating Deployments, and using Kubernetes objects. Our plan was to create a book that would go beyond a basic cluster, and to keep the book at a reasonable length, we have not re-hashed the basics of Kubernetes. Readers should have some experience with Kubernetes and DevOps before reading this book.

While the primary focus of the book is on extending clusters with enterprise features, the first section of the book will provide a refresher on key Docker topics and Kubernetes objects. It is important that you have a solid understanding of Kubernetes objects in order to get the most out of the more advanced chapters.