While Kubernetes has established itself as the industry standard for managing containers and their life cycles, there's a definite need for good practices on how to write native applications. This practical guide shows application and infrastructure developers, DevOps practitioners, and site reliability engineers how to develop cloud native apps that run on Kubernetes.

Red Hat's developer advocate Michael Hausenblas and senior software engineer Stefan Schimanski guide you through Kubernetes' basic building blocks including the client-go API library, custom resources, and cloud native programming languages. This intermediate-level book requires a minimum understanding of development and system administration tools and practices such as package management, the Go programming language, and using Git.