Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes
Designing, Building, and Operating Cloud-Native Microservices
What's Included:
Key Highlights
- End-to-end microservices architecture
- Production-ready Docker workflows
- Kubernetes-native deployment strategies
- Resilience and fault-tolerant design
- Security and observability best practices
Overview
Learn how to design, build, deploy, and operate cloud-native microservices using Docker and Kubernetes. A practical production-ready guide for modern DevOps teams.
The Problem
Many microservices projects fail due to poor architecture decisions, operational complexity, and lack of production readiness.
The Solution
This book provides a complete, practical roadmap for building and operating microservices using Docker and Kubernetes with proven patterns and best practices.
About This Book
Build Production-Ready Microservices Platforms
Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to designing, building, and operating scalable cloud-native microservices systems. Microservices architecture has become the foundation of modern software platforms at companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Uber.
Success with microservices requires far more than breaking applications into smaller services. This book teaches you how to build microservices that are resilient, secure, observable, and manageable at scale using Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration.
What You Will Learn
- Microservices design principles and when to use them
- Breaking monoliths into services: strategies and patterns
- Packaging microservices with Docker
- Container orchestration with Kubernetes
- Kubernetes deployments, services, and ingress
- Service-to-service communication: REST, gRPC, and messaging
- API gateway patterns and service mesh concepts
- Configuration and secret management in Kubernetes
- Scaling strategies: horizontal, vertical, and autoscaling
- Resilience patterns: circuit breakers, retries, timeouts
- Security best practices for microservices
- Monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing
- CI/CD pipelines for microservices
Who Is This Book For?
This book is designed for developers and architects building distributed systems. It is ideal for:
- Backend developers learning microservices architecture
- DevOps engineers managing containerized applications
- Architects designing cloud-native platforms
- Teams migrating from monolithic applications
- Anyone working with Docker and Kubernetes
Why This Book?
This book focuses on real-world microservices challenges and proven solutions used in production systems, not theoretical concepts.
Prerequisites
Basic Docker knowledge is helpful. Programming experience in any language is recommended.
Author: Dorian Thorne
Who Is This Book For?
- DevOps and platform engineers
- Backend developers building microservices
- Software architects
- Kubernetes administrators
- Cloud-native engineering teams
Who Is This Book NOT For?
- Readers new to basic programming concepts
- Those looking only for Docker or Kubernetes basics
- Monolithic application-only developers
Table of Contents
- Why Microservices Exist
- Core Microservices Principles
- Packaging Microservices with Docker
- Building Production-Ready Docker Images
- Kubernetes as a Microservices Platform
- Deploying Microservices to Kubernetes
- Managing Configuration and Secrets
- Service-to-Service Communication
- API Design and Communication Patterns
- Data Ownership in Microservices
- Stateful Microservices in Kubernetes
- Scaling Microservices
- Resilience and Fault Tolerance
- Securing Microservices
- Kubernetes Security for Microservices
- Logging and Monitoring Microservices
- Managing Microservices in Production
- CI/CD for Microservices
- Evolving Your Microservices Platform
- Microservices Best Practices and Anti-Patterns
Requirements
- Basic Docker knowledge
- Familiarity with Linux environments
- Basic understanding of web applications
