Goal
The path to "GitOps and Kubernetes"
Here is the reading path leading up to this book, derived from its dependencies and ordered from the fundamentals.
The path so far (2 books)
Why read this first: After understanding how to build and run a single container in Poulton's 'Docker Deep Dive', the challenge in production becomes orchestrating many containers together. Lukša's 'Kubernetes in Action' explains container orchestration from the ground up, scaling you from one container to distributed operation.
Why read this first: Once you move past operating Kubernetes imperatively with kubectl, advance to GitOps, where you declare the desired state in Git and let it converge automatically. Yuen et al.'s 'GitOps and Kubernetes' shows how to implement the GitOps principles defined by CNCF—declarative, versioned, pulled automatically, continuously reconciled—with tools like Argo CD.