The Kubernetes Book

The reviews that criticize the "cutesy" style are hugely exaggerated, the tone is just fine. This book is a solid introduction to Kubernetes that you can read cover-to-cover in a day allowing you to then come back and re-read for more in depth understanding. If you are a tech professional with experience with containers you will understand how Kubernetes fits into the big picture after reading this book. The author clearly understands Kubernetes and distills his knowledge throughout these pages. This book will help you get up to speed and launch you into a desire for further learning - and it will do so quickly.

This is a great book and I would highly recommend it, every example is direct to the point. I am not a beginner with K8s but some of the official documentation on Kubernetes.io left my knowledge with conceptual gaps, which this book really helped to clarify.

I just finished Docker Deep Dive and rolled right into this book. While in the end I really liked this book, I felt it was a little light as compared to Docker Deep Dive. I'm not an expert in either Docker or Kubernetes but it just felt like it was lacking the detail that Nigel's other book had. Also, I missed the structure of how Docker Deep Dive was setup; TLDR/Deep Dive/Commands. Lastly, the print on the first half of the book was slightly titled!! :(At the end of the day, its an amazing book and I'd highly recommend!

Great book that covers all the topics. Walk through with demos to try and helped me quickly get started learning more about Kubernetes. It was a good companion and alternative learning from the great videos on Acloudguru and pluralsight .

After reading Nigel's Docker Deep Dive book, I had to read this one and I wasn't disappointed. Easy to understand with lots of examples that go into enough detail for someone to grasp the Kubernetes concepts. It also provides a great quick start to get new users up and running with Kubernetes. If you are unfamiliar with this new technology, get this book to get you going. Definitely recommended.

If you want to get started on Kubernetes, this is a very good book. It covers all the basics in an easy to understand style.

A great book to build a foundation for understanding Kubernetes, it's operation, it's functions, it's tools, and also building your own environment. It is a great place to start in order to be able to administrate and hopefully move further into obtaining your CKA ( Certified Kubernetes Administrator) exam.

Overall print quality is pretty good (same quality as author’s Docker book). It has good information and basic first approach theory, perfect for entry level IT folks who want to learn about Kubernetes, however it lacks of fundamental theory, references, real world scenarios and experiences. More importantly, the essence of each topic/feature is loaded with tons of redundant content across all chapters, this happens all time, making this book difficult to enjoy.I purchased this book because I wanted to learn more about OnPremise Kubernetes solutions, as I’ve been recently working with cloud Kubernetes solutions (for which I also purchase a book or two) which doesn’t necessary have 100% same configuration and features, however this book failed to provide the In-Depth insight I was looking for. For example, The “Installing Kubernetes” chapter is a joke as it’s only a few pages and refers to managed cloud solutions or “Play with Kubernetes” Online offering which do not allow you to have the same OnPremise experience, the author mentions he doesn’t want to waste a “few pages on explaining Kubernetes Installation as this was already included in previous versions of this book”. Are you joking? Installing Kubernetes will be the pillar of how the book content is experienced by your readers, also this is one of the most difficult to understand topics in Kubernetes history (specially OnPremise solutions) due to networking plugins and more (something you won’t necessarily have to experience with cloud offerings), should I buy all versions of your book then? No sense and failure here.Author is constantly urging himself to save a few pages, however this is in contrast with how redundant chapters are and more importantly the way he recycles content from previous chapters (difficult to handle and happens constantly), also a few diagrams and representations are totally unnecessary, simple and will just consume pages.I’m summary, the book is good, however keep in mind that the core essence (which is extremely good for Kubernetes Entry Level folks) is only about 40% of the entire book, the remaining 60% could have been avoided. I would definitely refer to another book or internet reference for In-Depth stuff.Nigel did an amazing job with Dockers book, it had a better structure and contained more essence, it seems that he was really aiming for a Kubernetes book with around the same size, as result this is what we got, an overpriced book which sells due to another book success.