welcome
Thank you for your interest in the MEAP edition of Acing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam, Second Edition. This edition has been revised with updated study materials for the new CKA Exam and it reflects the changes to the domains and objectives. Also, Rafael Brito joins as my co-author, bringing his many years of valuable industry knowledge and experience to you, the reader.
To some, Kubernetes is considered overly complex and difficult to learn because it abstracts away so many of the components of a Linux system. I’m not going to pretend that’s not true, but I think we’ve done a great job in this book of explaining each component, to pull back the curtain, so to speak, and provide greater context, helping you better grasp concepts through real-world examples. Although this book is focused on the exam, I think it’s also a good resource to learn the fundamentals of Kubernetes. However, if you’d like to dive deeper into a specific topic, luckily there are a lot of other valuable resources out there. For example, the book Kubernetes in Action, by Marko Lukša, is a book I recommend a lot.