Kubernetes in Action

This was the single best resource to dive into Kubernetes, back when I didn’t know anything about it. The book is aimed at beginners and intermediates and so requires basically no up-front knowledge. It introduces concepts in an order that makes sense and ensures you have a full picture of a topic before moving on. Each chapter ramps up the complexity piece by piece. I read part 2 of the book cover-to-cover and was confident enough to muck about on the production cluster afterward.

The book doubles as a reference guide that I have consulted many times since. It is usually better at introducing a topic than the official documentation. The index at the end makes it easy to find chapters based on keywords. Even now that my hardcopy is becoming more and more outdated, I still use it to get started and then look for further documentation elsewhere.

Many of the internals are discussed in part 3, which I skipped initially. I have since come back to it piece by piece, as new concepts where required or just because I was interested.

That said, I don’t think experienced Kubernetes users will get much out of this book.