welcome
Hello, and thank you for purchasing the MEAP edition of The Road to Kubernetes. I wrote this book after over a decade’s worth of deploying applications into the wild as a guide to help you better understand your deployment options without spending decades or thousands of dollars to do so.
After completing this book, you will be able to answer the question: should we use Kubernetes? Deploying software has always been a thrill of mine because it’s where the rubber hits the road, so to speak. If your software isn’t deployed, does it even exist? Kubernetes is one option for deploying software, but it is often perceived as too complex for the vast majority of deployments and developers. By the end of this book, I hope to dispel this perception, or at least give you a solid mental model of how and when you can start leveraging Kubernetes.
If you’ve never deployed a web application into production before, this book will be a goldmine of learning because you’ll get to experience 15+ years’ worth of deployment options condensed into a digestible book. These deployment options are all modern approaches to cutting-edge and mature technologies that leverage a source-code-tracking and version control tool called Git. Being Git-first with deployments unlocks a layer of portability that’s incredibly challenging to achieve otherwise (ahem—I’m looking at you, FTP).