Reddit reviews Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

I highly recommend Kubernetes Up & Running which you can read for free with an individual trial account at https://www.safaribooksonline.com/

I found that a lot of the concepts it employs and hooks and the top-down design view only came into focus and understanding for me once I've read the book kubernetes up and running. The documentation is nowhere near the simplistic explanation of this book which made everything painfully clear.

Once I've read that I was able to come up with this post: Deploying clustered applications with Kubernetes where I'm deploying a multifaceted, distributed application with it.

Granted I still found some troubles along the way, but once I did that, everything made sense. :) I also wrote a bunch of beginner explanations which clarifies the main design of it. Hope this helped a little.

I would simply look at getting a book like "Docker up and Running"....if you're going the Docker route I'd also look at something like an orchestration platform (Kubernetes, Mesos, etc). Personally I'd say go with Kubernetes, it's what Google's been using in-house for about a decade or so. Kelsey Hightower just released the "Kubernetes up and Running" book recently. If you don't know Docker at all though, start there first, b/c the foundation for almost all Kubernetes setups is still Docker.

https://www.amazon.com/Docker-Shipping-Reliable-Containers-Production/dp/1491917571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493307612&sr=8-1&keywords=docker+up+and+running

https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Running-Dive-Future-Infrastructure/dp/1491935677/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1493307612&sr=8-2&keywords=docker+up+and+running

Some vids of Kelsey's talks about Kubernetes: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kelsey+hightower

Orchestration is big right now for Dockerized environments and webapp deployment, so getting to the point of being able to design a full CI pipeline around Github/CI (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc)/Kubernetes would give you a huge leg up in a job search right now.

I recommend the Kubernetes: Up and Running book.

The demos are amazing and it explains everything you might need.