Kubernetes The Hard Way if you want to start from first principles and learn all about low level tools and setup. In practice you're probably going to use a cl

Kubernetes The Hard Way if you want to start from first principles and learn all about low level tools and setup. In practice you're probably going to use a cloud provider or tool to automate all of this stuff, but it's useful to understand the core infrastructure like TLS certs, etcd, etc. Otherwise the official docs are quite good and worth starting there. I'd be wary of buying books that are more than a year or two old--the k8s space moves fast and they regularly have major updates once or twice a year. Books and docs can get a bit stale or out of date with current best practices.