The Kubernetes Book

Great book to build that foundational knowledge. Very easy to read with excellent examples that you can follow along with to reinforce the knowledge and build some confidence in what was taught. I was able to take what I learned in this book and immediately apply it on my job. I will be referencing this book again and again.

Great overview of Kubernetes for those of us that haven't been deep into the cloud. Beware: even though the description and images of this book describe the 2026 edition as of May, 2026, I received a 2023 edition. This older edition is missing the new chapter on the Gateway API which replaces Ingress and probably other aspects of the latest and greatest. You may want to consider other sources to fill in these details.

What a great book! It is very thorough and organized and easy to follow. There are a lot of images to help you understand the concepts. It has a lot of hands-on activities where you really learn stuff. I just used Docker Desktop on my personal PC and I was able to follow about 95% of the exercises (You need a cloud cluster for the other 5%, but you can just read the section and still learn a lot). I now know how Kubernetes works.

A gem for learning Kubernetes. I highly recommend this book if you want to make sense of how distributed systems work (at least at the infraestructure level).

The book covers all of the essentials and goes in depth on many useful topics. I would highly recommend it. This is not the endgame book though, you will have to look for weird and specific stuff inside the Documentation or on Github, but it's a very solid quickstart and general overview, while going deep enough for you to understand how the essential things work. Some improvements I would suggest are (as a consumer I would definitely be willing to pay more in order to get these): - The `Jobs` feature is very useful on a day to day basis (processing), but it's only briefly mentioned in the book. - A practical chapter on Autoscaling and LoadBalancing with famous platforms such as AWS or Azure would be very valuable. - A chapter with the deployment of a small example project that would be close to production, end-to-end. Inside a chapter like this, a comprehensive and practical section on best practices would be very welcome (best practices are mentioned throughout the book, but having them streamlined would be much easier for the student).

The book does an amazing job of introducing K8s with Nigel's tongue in cheek humor sprinkled around and is an entertaining read. Title is slightly misleading though, in the sense that it conveys that this is "the" authoritative book on K8s covering everything it has to offer. However, it did definitely push me to have a look at official docs to dive deeper. Lastly, a primer on how to secure k8s would make it worthy of 5 stars.

Great overview, clear and concise explanation, lots of examples. Excellent starter book for Kubernetes. Helm is not covered unfortunately.

Informative, and well organized, but falls short in a few areas: - Lots of typographical errors. - Overly verbose and repetitive. Some points are re-made 3 times in the same paragraph. - Overly informal writing style, accentuated by the excessive use of exclamation points. - Many examples refer to the readers as "Pluralsighters", presumably due to borrowing examples from the author's video courses. But this was a bit jarring, and left an unpolished feel. Most important, I found that it falls short in the area of content, by ending abruptly after explaining all of the high-level Kubernetes concepts (Pods, Services, ReplicaSets and Deployments), and doesn't expand any further. In particular, it doesn't explain how you might use multiple deployments together to deploy a production application (or whether this is even the preferred approach). It would also be greatly enhanced by including additional higher-level documentation and examples, such as: - How to deploy applications that have Pods with persistent dependencies (i.e. disk, IP addresses, etc) - How to handle backup and recovery of persistent storage in the context of Kubernetes - How to deploy applications with geographic redundancy in mind Overall, it's a good book, but it stops at explaining the Kubernetes tools, and doesn't expand enough into the larger context in which Kubernetes tools are typically used.

The Kubernetes Book ist perfekt für Einsteiger! 🚀 Klare Erklärungen, viele praktische Beispiele und eine gut strukturierte Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung machen den Einstieg in Kubernetes wirklich einfach. Man fühlt sich nicht wie ein Schiffbrüchiger in einem Meer aus Pods und Nodes. Dank dieses Buches verstehe ich jetzt endlich, wie alles zusammenspielt – und mein Cluster crasht nicht mehr alle fünf Minuten. Na ja… zumindest nicht ganz so oft.

Il massimo per chi voglia comprendere le logiche di Kubernetes. Grande chiarezza espositiva, nonché nella struttura del libro e nell'ordine degli argomenti trattati. Come più volte rimarcato dallo stesso autore: per chi voglia approcciare il percorso di certificazione CKA, rimane essenziale "sporcarsi le mani" con esercitazioni pratiche. Ottimo libro.

Just finished the 2025 version. I am new to Kubernetes and this book has been very easy to follow. Each topic is clearly explained and comes with examples that you can spin up on your own machine using the GitHub repo. I like that the YAML is also printed in the book so you can follow the labs without actually having to do them. I do think that this book is a bit light when it comes to CNI Plugins (Container Network Interface), but overall the book has been very good for building a foundation in Kubernetes.

Very nice book. explained concepts in a very detailed manner

Nice book on kubernetes. I would like to have seen more on writing your own controllers, but that might be too much for an introductory book.