Kubernetes book now available free in full — Kubernetes: From Basics to EKS in Production

The new book, Kubernetes: From Basics to EKS in Production, is now up on the site. All 32 chapters are free to read, with no purchase flow. The entire book is published, so you can open any chapter and start reading right away.

I wrote this book for those who know only Docker, for those who have used kubectl but lack operational experience, and for those who need to adopt Kubernetes on AWS. It is organized into six parts and 32 chapters. Part 1, Getting Started with Kubernetes, covers kubectl and your first Pod, Deployment, Service, and ConfigMap/Secret. Part 2, Workloads and Operations, extends into running a variety of workloads with StatefulSet, PV/PVC, Ingress, autoscaling, and RBAC. Part 3, Depth, widens the operator’s view through CNI, Admission Controller, CRD/Operator, observability, and GitOps. Part 4, EKS in Production, walks through one full cycle of real operations on AWS, from EKS cluster setup to RDS integration, CI/CD, and monitoring. Part 5, Operations, Debugging, and Cost, covers debugging patterns, cost optimization, and upgrade strategy. Part 6, the Capstone, deploys a fullstack app on one EKS cluster. It maintains a consistent tone throughout, from what a Pod is to GitOps, observability, and cost governance on EKS.

This book is built from the free series already published on the site: Kubernetes Basics (7 parts), Intermediate (7 parts), Advanced (6 parts), and in Practice (6 parts) — 26 parts in all. Those 26 parts are still on the site for free; none of the earlier series has gone away. The book reorganizes these scattered posts into one path from fundamentals to EKS in production, then adds new chapters on operations, debugging, and cost, a fullstack EKS capstone, and a docker-compose migration appendix to make it a single volume.

The funding model is the same as the rest of the site. This book is funded by site ads and reader support. All 32 chapters are free, and there is no purchase flow. If a chapter helps you, you can support the book on Ko-fi. Your support makes time for the next revisions and the next book. You can read the entire book with no restriction whether or not you choose to support it.

The structure, recommended entry points, and learning paths are laid out on the book page. On the Kubernetes book page, find the starting point that fits your background and begin with whichever chapter appeals to you.