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Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes
Building, Deploying, and Scaling Modern Applications in the Cloud
John Arundel, Justin Domingus
Summary
John Arundel and Justin Domingus wrote this as a practitioner's field guide rather than a Kubernetes reference manual: it follows one containerized application from a developer's laptop through a CI/CD pipeline into a running cluster, using that walkthrough to introduce the tools teams actually reach for, Helm, GitOps, observability stacks, and cluster security. Instead of documenting the full API surface, it argues for a specific way of operating Kubernetes in production, including when a managed cluster beats running your own control plane. The closing chapters on metrics and observability tie configuration choices back to what you can actually debug during an incident.
Target Readers
- Engineers who understand individual Kubernetes objects but haven't yet run a full build-to-deploy pipeline against a cluster
- Small-to-mid-size platform teams choosing between managed and self-hosted Kubernetes and wanting the operational tradeoffs, not a feature list
- Developers moving from single-target deployment to GitOps-style continuous deployment who need the reasoning behind the workflow
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- Publisher
- O'Reilly Japan
- ISBN
- 978-4873119014
- Published
- Jan 2020
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- ¥3,850incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon
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