Preface

The idea behind Kubernetes is to make engineers’ lives easier, right? Although true, there are pros and cons to every technology and platform. At the end of the day, Kubernetes does make handling containerization more efficient, but that doesn’t mean that it’s easy. Many organizations and engineers put in a lot of effort to truly get Kubernetes running the way it should run.

The goal of this book, and the overall 50 concepts, is to help mitigate some of these headaches. Although one book cannot mitigate every single issue that can occur, or make every single component work the way that it’s supposed to, the overall goal is to help you use Kubernetes in an easier fashion in production, with 50 key pieces ranging from cloud to on-prem to monitoring and security, and everything in between. The world is currently full of content and ways to teach you Kubernetes. This book is to help you make it to the next level.

Throughout this book, you’ll see everything from creating environments to deploying a service mesh and Kubernetes resources. I won’t lie – a lot of the topics in this book are literally books in themselves. Because of that, the explanations and overall pieces had to be trimmed down a bit. Because of that, you may not have all of the answers in this book, but it’ll give you an extremely good place to start your Kubernetes production journey.

With the 50 concepts in mind, you should be able to take what you learn here and ultimately expand on it in your production environment. Take what you learn, apply it, and ultimately, know which direction to go in to learn more about the concepts.