Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes: Build, Deploy, and Manage Scalable Microservices on Kubernetes

Building microservices is only part of the job: they also need to communicate, scale, stay secure, and behave reliably in production. Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes connects those architectural and operational concerns through a practical, Kubernetes-centered approach, using a sample application called Delinkcious to bring the ideas to life.

Build the system, not just the services

Gigi Sayfan starts with Kubernetes fundamentals and the relationship between container orchestration and microservice architecture. From there, the book examines service boundaries, APIs, dependencies, coordination, data ownership, and distributed transactions—decisions that shape how a system works long after its first deployment.

Follow Delinkcious from code to cluster

The sample application provides a thread to follow through the book. Readers explore Go and Go kit, structure services, and build a CI/CD pipeline, then work through configuration, Kubernetes ConfigMaps, secrets, access control, and security practices. The examples make the move from architectural concepts to implementation easier to follow.

Explore the production concerns

• Communication: REST and gRPC APIs, load balancing, service discovery, and message queues.
• Persistence: Kubernetes storage options and stateful services, including a Redis-backed example.
• Delivery and quality: CI/CD, GitOps, deployment strategies, rollbacks, and unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Operations: monitoring, logging, metrics, autoscaling, and service meshes, including Istio.

These topics show how individual choices—such as where data lives or how services communicate—connect to the larger work of operating a distributed application.

For developers moving toward production

This book is suited to developers and DevOps practitioners who already have some programming and container experience and want to understand how microservices fit into a Kubernetes environment. Its combination of concepts and a continuing sample project makes it useful for readers who prefer to learn system design alongside practical implementation.

Explore Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes for a grounded tour of the engineering decisions behind building and managing scalable services.