Free ebook on Kubernetes Ingress, service mesh, TLS, traffic routing, observability, and reliable cloud-native web serving.
Free ebook + audiobook content
-
Cloud-Native Web Serving Architecture on Kubernetes
+ Exercise: Why is it recommended to route edge traffic to a Kubernetes Service instead of directly to Pod IPs? 19 minutes
-
Local Kubernetes Lab Environment with Portable Manifests and Helm
+ Exercise: Which approach best improves portability when exposing an application in a local Kubernetes lab while keeping the same manifests usable in other environments? 20 minutes
-
Containerized Web Servers and Reverse Proxy Patterns for Web Workloads
+ Exercise: A reverse proxy returns intermittent 504 errors even though the backend eventually finishes processing. Which configuration issue is the most likely cause? 21 minutes
-
Kubernetes Services for Stable Networking and Load Distribution
+ Exercise: Why does a Kubernetes Service provide stable networking even when Pods are rescheduled or scaled? 19 minutes
-
Ingress Controllers for HTTP Routing, Hostnames, and Path Rules
+ Exercise: Why is it recommended to explicitly set spec.ingressClassName on an Ingress? 16 minutes
-
TLS Termination and Certificate Automation with cert-manager
+ Exercise: Which statement best describes what cert-manager does in a Kubernetes TLS termination setup? 22 minutes
-
Secure Edge Configuration for Headers, Redirects, and Request Limits
+ Exercise: Why is Content-Security-Policy (CSP) often configured per application rather than standardized globally at the edge? 19 minutes
-
Traffic Management Strategies: Blue/Green, Canary, and A/B Routing
+ Exercise: Which approach best fits a goal of reducing risk by gradually exposing real users to a new version while monitoring metrics and rolling back by setting the new version traffic to 0%? 20 minutes
-
Progressive Delivery Rollouts with Health Checks and Safe Fallbacks
+ Exercise: In a progressive rollout, which probe most directly controls whether new Pods begin receiving user traffic? 20 minutes
-
Observability for Web Serving: Metrics, Logs, and Distributed Tracing
+ Exercise: A team wants to debug a p99 latency spike on a single route in a Kubernetes web service. Which workflow best uses observability signals to find the root cause efficiently? 18 minutes
-
Ingress and Service Monitoring Dashboards and Alerting Signals
+ Exercise: Which alerting approach best reduces noise while still catching user-impacting problems in Ingress and service mesh? 16 minutes
-
Reliability Patterns: Timeouts, Retries, Circuit Breaking, and Backpressure
+ Exercise: Which coordination principle helps prevent confusing failures when configuring timeouts across Ingress, service mesh, and applications? 19 minutes
-
Service Mesh Fundamentals for East-West Traffic Control
+ Exercise: Why is a service mesh useful for controlling east-west traffic in Kubernetes compared to using only Kubernetes Services? 19 minutes
-
Mutual TLS and Identity-Based Service-to-Service Security
+ Exercise: What is the key advantage of using mTLS with identity-based policies in Kubernetes compared to relying on IP addresses? 16 minutes
-
Mesh Traffic Policies: Rate Limiting, Access Control, and Policy Enforcement
+ Exercise: Which rate limiting model is best when you need a single shared quota enforced across many service replicas? 20 minutes
-
Edge and Internal Routing with Mesh Gateways and Ingress Integration
+ Exercise: In a two-stage routing setup that integrates a Kubernetes edge component with a service mesh, which responsibility is best kept at the edge to reduce duplicated routing logic? 20 minutes
-
Troubleshooting Web Serving Failures: 502/504 Errors and Routing Mismatches
+ Exercise: When troubleshooting intermittent 502 or 504 errors, what is the most effective first step to narrow down the root cause? 20 minutes
-
Diagnosing Certificate and TLS Handshake Failures
+ Exercise: When testing an HTTPS endpoint that hosts multiple certificates on the same IP and port, what is the most reliable way to avoid receiving a default (wrong) certificate? 18 minutes
-
Scaling and Performance Bottlenecks in Ingress and Web Server Layers
+ Exercise: When autoscaling ingress replicas, which metric is typically more appropriate for long-lived connections like WebSockets or gRPC streams? 18 minutes
-
Production Readiness Checklist for a Cloud-Provider Agnostic Web Platform
+ Exercise: Which approach best turns a production readiness checklist into an enforceable release gate for a cloud-provider agnostic Kubernetes web platform? 21 minutes
About the free ebook with audio
Cloud-Native Web Serving with Kubernetes Ingress and Service Mesh
This free ebook explains how to build, secure, operate, and troubleshoot cloud-native web serving platforms on Kubernetes. It connects the web server layer, Kubernetes networking, Ingress routing, TLS automation, and service mesh controls into a practical architecture for production workloads.
Build a portable web-serving foundation
Learn how to prepare a local Kubernetes environment, use reusable manifests and Helm, and deploy containerized web servers behind reverse proxies. The ebook shows how Kubernetes Services provide stable discovery and load distribution while Ingress controllers route HTTP traffic by hostname and path.
You will explore certificate automation with cert-manager, TLS termination, redirects, security headers, and request limits. These controls help create a safer edge without coupling the platform to a single cloud provider.
Deliver changes with controlled traffic
Understand how blue/green, canary, and A/B routing strategies support safer releases. The material covers progressive delivery, health checks, rollback paths, and fallback behavior so teams can reduce the impact of failed deployments.
- Configure HTTP routing and backend services.
- Protect public endpoints with TLS and edge policies.
- Apply traffic controls for gradual releases.
- Identify capacity and performance constraints.
Observe, secure, and strengthen service communication
Move beyond edge routing with service mesh fundamentals for east-west traffic. Discover mutual TLS, workload identity, access control, rate limiting, and policy enforcement for service-to-service communication. Mesh gateways and Ingress integration are presented as complementary layers for external and internal routing.
Operate with confidence
The ebook also focuses on metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerts, timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, and backpressure. Practical diagnostic guidance helps investigate 502 and 504 responses, routing mismatches, certificate issues, and TLS handshake failures. Finish with a production-readiness perspective for a resilient, observable, cloud-provider-agnostic web platform.
Ideal for platform engineers, DevOps practitioners, and web infrastructure teams seeking a clear Kubernetes-based approach to modern web delivery.
How does Kubernetes Ingress route web traffic?
Ingress controllers apply hostname and path rules to send HTTP or HTTPS requests to the correct Kubernetes Services.
What is cert-manager used for with Kubernetes Ingress?
cert-manager automates certificate issuance, renewal, and TLS secret management for secured Ingress endpoints.
How can a service mesh improve web platform reliability?
A service mesh can enforce mTLS and traffic policies such as retries, timeouts, circuit breaking, and rate limits.
This ebook/audiobook includes:
6 hours and 32 minutes of audio content
Digital certificate of course completion (Free)
Exercises to train your knowledge
100% free, from content to certificate
Ready to get started?
recommended
In the app you will also find...
Over 5,000 free courses
Programming, English, Digital Marketing and much more! Learn whatever you want, for free.
Study plan with AI
Our app's Artificial Intelligence can create a study schedule for the course you choose.
From zero to professional success
Improve your resume with our free Certificate and then use our Artificial Intelligence to find your dream job.
You can also use the QR Code or the links below.
