Free ebookCloud-Native Web Serving with Kubernetes Ingress and Service Mesh

Course Description

Cloud-Native Web Serving with Kubernetes Ingress and Service Mesh is a practical ebook course for building and operating modern web serving on Kubernetes. If you are deploying containerized web servers, APIs, or web apps and want predictable routing, secure TLS, and resilient traffic handling, this course shows how to assemble a cloud-native web platform that works consistently across providers.

You will learn how cloud-native web serving architecture fits together from the edge to the cluster, using Kubernetes Services for stable networking and load distribution and Ingress controllers for HTTP routing with hostnames and path rules. Through a local Kubernetes lab environment, you will practice with portable manifests and Helm so your setup stays reproducible and easy to evolve from development to production.

Security and safe delivery are built in throughout. You will set up TLS termination and certificate automation with cert-manager, then harden the edge with secure headers, redirects, and request limits. You will also apply traffic management strategies such as blue green, canary, and A B routing, and implement progressive delivery rollouts using health checks and reliable fallback behavior to reduce risk during releases.

To keep systems observable and dependable, the course connects metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to the realities of web serving, including monitoring dashboards and alerting signals for Ingress and service behavior. You will apply reliability patterns like timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, and backpressure, and learn how service mesh fundamentals improve east west traffic control with mutual TLS and identity-based service-to-service security. You will also explore mesh traffic policies for rate limiting, access control, and policy enforcement, plus gateway patterns that integrate edge routing with internal routing.

Finally, you will gain a troubleshooting mindset for common failures such as 502 and 504 errors, routing mismatches, certificate issues, and TLS handshake problems, along with guidance for scaling and performance bottlenecks in Ingress and web server layers. Wrap up with a production readiness checklist to help you build a cloud-provider agnostic web serving platform. Start the course today and turn Kubernetes networking, Ingress, and service mesh concepts into hands-on skills you can use immediately.