Mastering Kubernetes: From Pods to Production: A comprehensive guide to container orchestration best practices and real-world deployments

C. Miller, Luis

/ ISBN 13: 9798296104298

Published by Independently published, 2025

Seller Inventory # 50953929-n

Synopsis:

Mastering Kubernetes isn’t just a reference, it’s your definitive playbook for building rock-solid, scalable, and resilient cloud-native applications and services that thrive on clusters from a single node to a global microservices mesh. Whether you’re operating a production-grade Kubernetes control plane or architecting multi-cloud deployments, this book equips you with the patterns, practices, and deep-dive strategies to deliver mission-critical Kubernetes solutions with confidence.

What You’ll Learn

✔ Core Architecture & Reconciliation

– Delve into the reconciliation loop, controllers, and custom operators for self-healing systems

– Scale a high-availability control plane: API servers, etcd clusters, leader elections

– Organize your cluster with labels, selectors, and annotations for dynamic workload management

✔ Workloads & Update Strategies

– Master Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, and CronJobs

– Implement rolling updates, rollbacks, blue-green, and canary release patterns

– Tune resource requests, limits, HPA/VPA autoscaling, and affinity rules for performance

✔ Networking & Service Meshes

– Configure Services, Endpoints, Ingress controllers, and external load balancers

– Choose and customize CNI plugins for flat networking, policy enforcement, and multitenancy

– Integrate Istio or Linkerd for secure, zero-trust routing, traffic shaping, and mTLS

✔ Configuration & Secrets Management

– Manage ConfigMaps and Secrets with encryption, external vaults, and admission controls

– Define RBAC roles, Pod Security Standards, and network policies for cluster hardening

– Extend Kubernetes with CRDs, webhooks, and GitOps-driven configuration workflows

✔ Storage & Data Persistence

– Provision PersistentVolumes, PVCs, StorageClasses, and CSI drivers for any storage backend

– Architect dynamic provisioning, replication, and snapshot strategies for stateful apps

– Optimize I/O performance with caching layers, volume resizing, and tiered storage

✔ Observability & Resilience

– Centralize logging with the EFK stack and correlate logs with Prometheus metrics

– Instrument distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or commercial APMs

– Build fault-tolerant workflows with circuit breakers, retries, Pod disruption budgets, and chaos testing

Who This Book Is For

• Kubernetes administrators and cluster operators managing large-scale deployments

• DevOps engineers and SREs automating CI/CD, observability, and platform provisioning

• Application developers building cloud-native microservices and custom operators

• Platform architects defining best practices for security, reliability, and continuous delivery

With production-tested YAML manifests, reusable Helm charts, and end-to-end examples, Mastering Kubernetes is the essential guide to building future-proof, high-velocity, and resilient systems where every pod, node, and millisecond counts.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mastering Kubernetes: From Pods to ...
Publisher: Independently published
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New