The Kubernetes Bible, Second Edition
The definitive guide to deploying and managing Kubernetes across cloud and on-prem environments.
The definitive guide to deploying and managing Kubernetes across cloud and on-prem environments.
About this book
Kubernetes is the standard platform for running containerized applications at scale. It automates deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management for your services across clouds and on-prem.
What this edition adds
The second edition updates every chapter for current Kubernetes releases and real-world patterns you’ll actually use in production.
What you’ll learn
- Security you can trust — hardening the control plane and nodes, RBAC done right, network policies, image and supply-chain basics.
- Scale without drama — autoscaling strategies, multi-AZ considerations, and capacity planning that won’t bite you later.
- Production ops — day-2 tasks, upgrades, backup/restore, observability, and incident playbooks.
- Cloud-native everywhere — running on GKE, EKS, and AKS with provider-specific gotchas and sane defaults.
- Networking that makes sense — Services, Ingress, Gateways, and traffic shaping patterns.
- Packaging and release — Helm charts, values management, and promoting across environments.
- Config discipline — ConfigMaps, Secrets, and immutable patterns that keep drift under control.
Who this is for
- Developers who want a clean path to build and ship apps on Kubernetes with confidence.
- DevOps/SREs who own clusters and need practical, battle-tested guidance.
- Practitioners who already use Kubernetes and want to level up on security, scaling, and day-2 ops.
What you should know first
Basic familiarity with containers (Docker/OCI) and a cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) helps, but the book starts from first principles and builds up to advanced operations.
About the authors
Gineesh Madapparambath
Gineesh has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy, with hands-on work planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects.
He has designed and delivered automation using Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform for server build, patching, license management, network ops, and custom monitoring across global data centers in classic, private cloud (OpenStack, VMware), and public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) environments.
His focus areas are IT and application automation with Ansible, containerization with OpenShift and Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation with Terraform.
Russ McKendrick
Russ McKendrick is a long-time DevOps engineer and systems administrator with a passion for automation and containers, working almost exclusively with Linux and open-source tooling.
Over nearly 30 years, he has supported teams and customers across sectors and now leads SRE & DevOps practice at Node4. Also: buys way too many records.