Hosting a Real Application on Kubernetes
Kubernetes Production-Ready Hosting,Deploy and host production-grade Kubernetes apps with confidence.
If you’ve ever shipped a container and wondered what it really takes to run it reliably at scale, this book closes the gap between quick demos and dependable production. It translates complex Kubernetes decisions into clear, actionable steps you can apply immediately.
Working through a complete app, you’ll learn how to design for uptime, security, and cost efficiency—without sacrificing delivery speed. Expect pragmatic guidance, opinionated patterns, and repeatable workflows that stand up to real traffic.
From Source Code to Production-Ready Deployment in a Kubernetes Cluster
Overview
Hosting a Real Application on Kubernetes is an IT book, programming guide, and technical book that shows you exactly how to move a real codebase into resilient production on Kubernetes. From Source Code to Production-Ready Deployment in a Kubernetes Cluster, you’ll master container orchestration and application hosting while making smart choices that balance reliability, performance, and cost.
The journey covers Kubernetes deployment strategies, service mesh configuration, auto-scaling implementation, monitoring and logging, CI/CD integration, database management, TLS certificate handling, cost optimization, troubleshooting techniques, security best practices, performance optimization, rolling updates, and configuration management. Every technique is grounded in hands-on examples and production-grade patterns, giving you a blueprint you can adapt to your environment.
Who This Book Is For
- DevOps engineers and SREs who want repeatable pipelines, safer releases, and clear runbooks that reduce on-call stress and improve reliability.
- Backend developers moving from “works on my machine” to resilient services, learning how to ship with CI/CD and observe behavior in real clusters.
- Platform teams and architects aiming to standardize Kubernetes workflows, champion security best practices, and scale with confidence across teams.
Key Lessons and Takeaways
- Design a production-ready architecture with robust networking, health checks, probes, and resource limits so your services survive failures and scale smoothly.
- Use proven Kubernetes deployment strategies—such as rolling updates, blue‑green, and canary—to cut risk, speed recovery, and validate changes safely.
- Implement end-to-end automation with CI/CD integration, standardized configuration management, and policy-driven security for faster, safer delivery.
Why You’ll Love This Book
Clarity and practicality lead the way: each chapter adds a real-world capability to a working application, reinforcing concepts with templates and checklists. You’ll configure service mesh routing, auto-scaling, and TLS like an expert, while learning how to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize costs under real load. The result is a confident, repeatable approach to running modern services in Kubernetes.
How to Get the Most Out of It
- Follow the chapter flow from containerization to production hardening, treating each step as an incremental capability you add to the app and the platform.
- Mirror the examples in your environment: adapt the YAML templates, wire up your CI/CD, and validate observability dashboards against live traffic.
- Tackle mini-projects: run a canary rollout with metrics-based promotion, add cert-manager for automated TLS certificate handling, and tune HPA/VPA for stable auto-scaling implementation.
What You’ll Build Along the Way
You’ll containerize a real service, set up pipelines that build and sign images, and deploy to a cluster using Git-driven workflows. You’ll integrate a database with proper secrets and configuration management, use a service mesh for progressive delivery, and enforce security best practices from pod security to network policies.
Visibility is front and center: you’ll instrument monitoring and logging with actionable SLOs, alerts, and tracing to debug issues quickly. You’ll also learn practical troubleshooting techniques for common failure modes—image pull issues, misconfigured services, resource contention—and how to prevent them from recurring.
Performance, Security, and Cost—Balanced
Performance optimization is treated as a system discipline: request/limit tuning, horizontal and vertical scaling, and cache-aware micro-optimizations backed by real metrics. Security comes built-in with least-privilege defaults, secure supply chains, and workload isolation that align with compliance needs.
Cost optimization isn’t an afterthought. You’ll adopt right-sizing, cluster autoscaling, and workload scheduling techniques that reduce spend while preserving performance and reliability—complete with dashboards that keep costs visible to your team.
Production Patterns You Can Trust
From progressive delivery to emergency rollback, the book demonstrates Kubernetes deployment strategies that shorten feedback loops and boost confidence. You’ll learn how to structure namespaces, label strategies, and RBAC for clarity and control, and how to standardize Helm or Kustomize for repeatable deployments.
The result is an operational playbook that scales across services and teams, ensuring consistent application hosting no matter how complex your stack becomes.
Get Your Copy
Build a platform you can trust, ship changes faster, and sleep better on-call. If you’re ready to take your services from “it runs locally” to resilient, observable, and secure in production, this is your guide.
