Kubernetes Cookbook: Building Cloud Native Applications, 2nd Edition

Kubernetes work rarely stays in one lane: a deployment needs a manifest, a service needs to reach it, and soon you are investigating storage, scaling, or a stubborn pod. Kubernetes Cookbook: Building Cloud Native Applications, 2nd Edition meets those practical questions with focused recipes that show how to approach common tasks across the lifecycle of a Kubernetes application.

Practical answers, organized by the work at hand

Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, and Jonathan Michaux use a problem-solution-discussion format, so readers can look up a task and follow an applied treatment rather than rely on a purely conceptual tour. The book starts with local Kubernetes environments and cluster setup, then builds into kubectl, workloads, services, and application manifests managed with tools such as Helm.

From first deployment to day-to-day operations

• Create and work with clusters, including examples involving Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Amazon EKS.
• Manage pods, deployments, jobs, scheduled tasks, services, and application manifests.
• Explore Kubernetes API resources, namespaces, quotas, labels, and annotations.
• Work with volumes, persistent data, configuration, and secrets.
• Scale applications and clusters, apply access controls, and secure pods.

These topics connect the pieces that make a workload useful in practice: getting it running is only the beginning; readers also need ways to expose it, configure it, observe its health, and respond when something goes wrong.

Beyond the basics: meshes, events, and extensions

Later recipes cover monitoring and logging, probes, metrics, debugging, and cluster maintenance. The book also explores service meshes with Istio and Linkerd, serverless and event-driven applications with Knative, and Kubernetes extensions through custom resource definitions and a Python client.

Who may find it useful

This hands-on Kubernetes cookbook is aimed at developers and system administrators who want task-oriented guidance for building and operating cloud-native applications. Its range makes it useful both as a structured reference and as a place to turn when a specific cluster or application-management question comes up.