Docker & Kubernetes: A Practical Introduction: From Docker to Kubernetes: A Hands-On Guide to Containers with kind (AIDevOps Cloud Native Series)

From “it works on my machine” to your first Kubernetes application

This hands-on guide is for developers meeting containers for the first time. You take one small Web · API · Redis service from a single docker run to a working Kubernetes application with Ingress — and every step runs on your own computer.

No cloud account is required. The Docker chapters run on your local Docker Engine, and the Kubernetes chapters run in a local cluster created by kind (Kubernetes in Docker), which starts each Kubernetes node as a Docker container. Every lab was run with Docker 29.2, kind v0.33.0, Kubernetes v1.37.0, Helm 3.19, and Traefik, and the book shows the real output.

Inside are 21 chapters, 56 figures, 66 practice questions, and 3 worked cases. Free companion files — application source, Dockerfiles, Compose files, and Kubernetes manifests — accompany the book.

What you will learn
• Images, containers, and Dockerfiles, explained with figures and labs
• Networks, volumes, and Docker Compose to finish a Web → API → Redis service
• Multi-stage, non-root images with BuildKit, buildx, and SBOMs
• Registries, tags versus digests, and an optional three-node Swarm
• Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, persistent volumes, and Ingress for your first Kubernetes application
• A troubleshooting appendix with four deliberately broken Pods to diagnose and repair

Who this book is for
Developers, operators, and QA engineers starting with containers and Kubernetes, and computing students. This is Volume 1 of the Kubernetes Learning Series; the journey continues in Kubernetes: Understanding & Practice.