Run containers reliably at scale — learn Kubernetes from the control plane up.

Welcome to Kubernetes: Orchestrating Containers at Scale.

Docker runs a container on one machine; Kubernetes runs thousands across many — scheduling, healing, scaling, and exposing them automatically. This free, example-driven book teaches it from the ground up: why orchestration, the control-plane-and-nodes architecture, kubectl and a local cluster, Pods, Deployments for running and scaling, Services and networking, ConfigMaps and Secrets, persistent storage, Ingress for external traffic, and health probes, autoscaling, and Helm for production. Ten focused chapters with real manifests and clear diagrams. (Knowing Docker first helps.) Learn the system that runs cloud-native software the world over.

This title is part of the ShriIra library and is free to read in full, right here — our small contribution to making world-class knowledge easy to reach.

A note on reading it: open the Contents menu at the top of the reader to jump between chapters, use the Aa menu to set a comfortable text size, theme (light, sepia, or night), and single- or two-page layout. Your place is saved automatically, so you can always pick up where you left off.

We hope it serves you well.

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Contents

1. Chapter 1 — What Kubernetes Is and Why Orchestration
2. Chapter 2 — Architecture: Control Plane and Nodes
3. Chapter 3 — Getting Started with kubectl
4. Chapter 4 — Pods: The Smallest Unit
5. Chapter 5 — Deployments: Running and Scaling
6. Chapter 6 — Services and Networking
7. Chapter 7 — Configuration: ConfigMaps and Secrets
8. Chapter 8 — Storage: Persisting Data
9. Chapter 9 — Ingress: Routing External Traffic
10. Chapter 10 — Scaling, Health, and Production