After writing Ansible for DevOps in 2014 and publishing more than 20 revisions to the book, I had a desire to start working on companion books that were more
focused on particular aspects of infrastructure automation that I couldn’t cover in depth otherwise.
I started using Kubernetes in 2017, and found Ansible integrated nicely with my automation workflows in Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure. After
adding a lengthy chapter to Ansible for DevOps introducing readers to Ansible and Kubernetes, I decided to expand the material into an entire book!
My primary motivation for writing this book is feedback I’ve been getting from a lot of readers. They are frustrated when they read other Kubernetes-related books, blog posts, and documentation, but run into a problem illustrated below.
Many books promise to show you how to do new and exciting things in Kubernetes. They demonstrate simple stateless applications running in a Kubernetes cluster, and then tell you to go create robust, scalable, clusters running real-world applications. But they don’t explain how to do it, much less how to make your process automated and well-tested!
Don’t worry, I’m not going to do that here. We’re going to start drawing that circle in Chapter 1, but through the rest of the book I’ll teach you how to turn that circle into a beautiful owl—er… Kubernetes-powered infrastructure.
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After writing Ansible for DevOps in 2014 and publishing more than 20 revisions to the book, I had a desire to start working on companion books that were more
focused on particular aspects of infrastructure automation that I couldn’t cover in depth otherwise.
I started using Kubernetes in 2017, and found Ansible integrated nicely with my automation workflows in Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure. After
adding a lengthy chapter to Ansible for DevOps introducing readers to Ansible and Kubernetes, I decided to expand the material into an entire book!
My primary motivation for writing this book is feedback I’ve been getting from a lot of readers. They are frustrated when they read other Kubernetes-related books, blog posts, and documentation, but run into a problem illustrated below.
Many books promise to show you how to do new and exciting things in Kubernetes. They demonstrate simple stateless applications running in a Kubernetes cluster, and then tell you to go create robust, scalable, clusters running real-world applications. But they don’t explain how to do it, much less how to make your process automated and well-tested!
Don’t worry, I’m not going to do that here. We’re going to start drawing that circle in Chapter 1, but through the rest of the book I’ll teach you how to turn that circle into a beautiful owl—er… Kubernetes-powered infrastructure.