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On my way back I had two paperbacks that was purchased while I was in Austin attending the KubeCon 2017. Kubernetes Up & Running by Kelsey Hightower, Brendon Burns and Joe Beda - this is a special book as I managed to get their Autograph (got two copies one was sent to Colombo office with few other books). Started reading the book after I got on to the plane from LA and managed to finished reading with about 2hrs to land in Australia (in between I watched two movies too ;-) ) Yes I still need to try out many of the examples and possibly building a Pi Cluster in the summer. What did I like about the book? It was an easy read, I was surprised as to how Kelsey, Brendon and Joe managed to keep this book highly technical yet very easy to read and understand. The book covers the most of the key areas related to Kubernetes with detailed examples where possible. They didn't start the book jumping straight into Kubernetes, they had two chapters where they covered on

I left Australia on 2nd December for the KubeCon and Cloud Native conference in Austin Texas. I knew it was going to be a long journey and knowing that I don't normally get a good sleep on long flights decided to take a paperback and many eBooks. So what did I ended up reading? Cloud Native Infrastructure (eBook) by Kris Nova and Justin Garrison I had already finished two chapters of this book while waiting to get on the plane to LA. After getting on to the plane read another chapter and given my phone battery was quite low I put in for charging while switched to reading the paperback. Anyway I continued reading when the battery was fully charged, so between Melbourne, LA and Austin managed to complete reading the entire book. What do I think about the book? Kris and Justin did a very good job explaining the running applications vs true Cloud Native applications. The book is structured in a way that it's easier to understand even for people who may have not worked or had