"Keptn for Cloud-Native Automation"
"Keptn for Cloud-Native Automation" is a comprehensive guide to mastering cloud-native automation through the powerful Keptn platform. It deeply explores the complexities of modern distributed environments and demystifies the operational challenges inherent in large-scale Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments. By contrasting declarative and imperative automation paradigms, the book establishes a clear foundation for understanding cutting-edge, event-driven orchestration and guides readers through best practices in pipeline automation and SLO-driven reliability engineering.
Delving into Keptn's architecture, the book provides a detailed walkthrough of its event-driven control plane, project and service modeling, extensibility approaches, security practices, and multi-tenant capabilities. Readers will find authoritative guidance on scalable installation, configuration management, lifecycle operations, observability, and achievement of enterprise-grade high availability for production workloads. Chapters unravel the intricacies of integrating Keptn with CI/CD toolchains, observability stacks, infrastructure as code, and diverse multi-region and cross-platform delivery strategies—building the foundation for fully automated, self-healing systems.
This book further empowers practitioners with advanced topics on extension development, robust security integration, operational analytics, and future automation trends including AI/ML-driven orchestration and edge-to-cloud workflows. With practical case studies, patterns for autonomous remediation, and insights into the evolving CNCF ecosystem, "Keptn for Cloud-Native Automation" serves as an indispensable resource for engineers, architects, and platform operators seeking to transform their automation capabilities and drive innovation in cloud-native environments.
