Goal
The path to "Kubernetes in Action"
Here is the reading path leading up to this book, derived from its dependencies and ordered from the fundamentals.
The path so far (3 books)
Why read this first: Where 'The DevOps Handbook' surveys broad DevOps practices, Humble & Farley's 'Continuous Delivery' digs into its core—building deployment pipelines—as the original source. Ideal for solidifying the theoretical backbone of CI/CD after grasping the overall picture of practice.
Why read this first: A key to achieving continuous delivery is producing an artifact that 'runs the same everywhere'. Poulton's 'Docker Deep Dive' explains container-based standardization and portability from the ground up, fixing the standard form of the artifact a CD pipeline ships as a container.
Why read this first: After understanding how to build and run a single container in Poulton's 'Docker Deep Dive', the challenge in production becomes orchestrating many containers together. Lukša's 'Kubernetes in Action' explains container orchestration from the ground up, scaling you from one container to distributed operation.