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Lab guides

Hands-On series

Five compact guides for engineers preparing for a technical interview. Free PDFs, in English and German.

Edition 5 books · 574 pages in total · English and German
PDF · free download · CC BY-ND 4.0
Kubernetes Observability
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Kubernetes Observability Hands-On

Metrics, logs and traces on Kubernetes, from the Prometheus pull model to S3 for old data.

Length
126 pages · 36 chapters · 8 parts
Covers
Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Thanos, Mimir, Loki, Alloy, Tempo
For
Prometheus 3.15, Grafana 13.3, Thanos 0.42, Mimir 3.2, Loki 3.7, Tempo 3.1, Alloy 1.21
Note
Commands, configurations and sample output have not been run on a cluster.
Format
PDF, 1.4 MB · CC BY-ND 4.0

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Kyverno
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Kyverno Hands-On

Policy as code for Kubernetes: the CEL policy types, the classic ClusterPolicy world, migration, testing and operations.

Length
116 pages · 40 chapters · 7 parts
Covers
ValidatingPolicy, MutatingPolicy, GeneratingPolicy, ImageValidatingPolicy, DeletingPolicy, ClusterPolicy, Kyverno CLI
For
Kyverno 1.19 (chart 3.9), with a look at 1.20
Note
Commands, policies and sample output have not been run on a cluster or with the Kyverno CLI.
Format
PDF, 1.3 MB · CC BY-ND 4.0

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Helm Charts
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Helm Charts Hands-On

From the first release to your own charts: templates, advanced charts, operations, delivery and troubleshooting.

Length
114 pages · 41 chapters · 8 parts
Covers
Charts, Go templates, Sprig, hooks, CRDs, OCI registries, helm-unittest, GitOps
For
Helm 4 (commands as of Helm 4.3)
Note
Commands, charts and sample output have not been run.
Format
PDF, 1.3 MB · CC BY-ND 4.0

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Ceph
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Ceph Hands-On

How Ceph thinks and how to run it: RADOS, CRUSH and placement groups, the storage interfaces, operations and troubleshooting.

Length
109 pages · 38 chapters · 7 parts
Covers
cephadm, RBD, CephFS, RGW, Rook and CSI, BlueStore, erasure coding
For
Ceph Tentacle (20.2) with cephadm
Note
Commands and sample output have not been run on a cluster.
Format
PDF, 1.1 MB · CC BY-ND 4.0

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Dockerfiles
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Dockerfiles Hands-On

Every Dockerfile instruction with its pitfalls, then better builds, language patterns, security and CI.

Length
109 pages · 38 chapters · 7 parts
Covers
BuildKit, multi-stage builds, secrets, multi-arch, Node.js, Python, Go, Java, SBOM, signing
For
Docker Engine 29 and Buildx 0.38 with BuildKit
Note
Dockerfiles, commands and output have not been built or run.
Format
PDF, 1.2 MB · CC BY-ND 4.0

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The English editions are translations of the German originals. The licence allows you to share them unchanged, with attribution; it does not allow adaptations, translations included.

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