Sam Okonkwo
Site Reliability Engineer
Sam has carried the pager for systems on both AWS and GCP and writes the runbook they wish had existed at 3 a.m.
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Kubernetes on Managed Clouds
EKS and GKE Beyond the Getting Started Guide
By Sam Okonkwo and Yuki Tanabe
Multi-cloudPractitionerPlatform EngineeringArchitecture
A managed Kubernetes control plane removes one class of problem and introduces another: you now share responsibility with a provider whose boundaries are documented but rarely internalized.
This book maps that boundary precisely for EKS and GKE — upgrade mechanics, node lifecycle, networking plugins, IAM integration, and the failure modes that only show up during a version skew.
Written for engineers already running clusters who want to stop being surprised by them.
What you'll learn
- Locate the exact boundary of provider responsibility on EKS and GKE
- Run upgrades without a version-skew incident
- Integrate cluster workloads with cloud IAM correctly
- Choose networking plugins with their scaling limits in mind
Table of contents
- 01The Shared Responsibility Line30 pp
- 02Node Lifecycle and Autoscaling42 pp
- 03Cluster Networking Plugins44 pp
- 04Workload Identity and IRSA38 pp
- 05Upgrades and Version Skew40 pp
- 06When the Control Plane Is the Problem34 pp
6 chapters · 364 pages total
Details
- ISBN
- 978-1-959321-07-6
- Edition
- 1st
- Pages
- 364
- Published
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB
- Platform
- Multi-cloud
About the authors
Yuki Tanabe
Staff Platform Engineer
Yuki maintains internal developer platforms used by four thousand engineers. Her work focuses on the narrow path between too much abstraction and none at all.