front matter
We wrote this book to empower those wanting to take their K8s (Kubernetes) knowledge to the next level by immediately digging into the murky details of various topics related to storage, networking, and tooling.
Although we don’t attempt to provide a comprehensive guide to every feature in the K8s API (as that would be impossible), we really believe that, after reading this book, users will have a new-found intuition on how to reason about complex infrastructure-related problems in production clusters and how to think about the overall progression of the Kubernetes landscape in a broader context.
Books exist that allow a user to learn the basics of Kubernetes, but we wanted to make a book that teaches the core technologies that make up Kubernetes. Networking, the control plane, and other topics are covered in low-level detail, which will help you understand how the internals of Kubernetes function. Gaining an understanding of how the system works will make you a better DevOps or software engineer.
We’re hoping to inspire new contributors to Kubernetes along the way as well. Please do reach out to us on Twitter (@jayunit100, @chrislovecnm) to get more engaged with the broader Kubernetes community or to help us add more examples where necessary to the GitHub repositories associated with this book.