// Alternatives
Alternatives to Hacking Kubernetes
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Hacking Kubernetes. If Hacking Kubernetes is the wrong fit at intermediate level, start here.
01 · 2021
How to Hack Like a Ghost
A narrated, real-time breach of a fictional data-driven political consulting firm's AWS and Kubernetes environment, written by a working penetration tester who presents at Black Hat and DEF CON.
Intermediate4/5Sparc Flow02 · 2020
Container Security
Liz Rice's first-principles introduction to how Linux containers actually work — namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp, image layering — and the security implications that fall out of those mechanics.
Intermediate4/5Liz Rice03 · 2018
Kubernetes Security
Liz Rice and Michael Hausenblas's freely-available O'Reilly short on the Kubernetes-specific security model: API server, RBAC, network policy, secrets, and the typical hardening steps that move a cluster from default to defensible.
Intermediate4/5Liz Rice, Michael Hausenblas04 · 2018
Pentesting Azure Applications
Matt Burrough on attacker behaviour against Azure tenants: identity, storage, VMs, key material handling, and the recon paths that work against real subscriptions.
Intermediate3/5Matt Burrough05 · 2021
Kubernetes Security and Observability
Brendan Creane and Amit Gupta's combined treatment of Kubernetes security and observability — RBAC, network policy, runtime detection, and the telemetry needed to make any of it operationally real.
Advanced3/5Brendan Creane, Amit Gupta06 · 2025
Metasploit
The second edition of the definitive No Starch guide to the Metasploit Framework, updated by the project's original maintainers and newer contributors for the modern Framework.
Intermediate4/5David Kennedy, Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns, Jim O'Gorman, Daniel G. Graham07 · 2024
Black Hat Bash
Nick Aleks and Dolev Farhi on getting offensive work done with the shell: privilege escalation tooling, lateral movement, and pipelining bash with the rest of the toolkit.
Intermediate4/5Nick Aleks, Dolev Farhi08 · 2008
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
A from-first-principles tour of low-level exploitation that still teaches the mindset two decades later.
Intermediate5/5Jon Erickson09 · 2023
Black Hat GraphQL
Aleks and Farhi on attacking GraphQL specifically: introspection abuse, batching, depth and complexity attacks, auth flaws, and the differences from REST that make GraphQL pentests their own discipline.
Intermediate4/5Nick Aleks, Dolev Farhi10 · 2022
Hacking APIs
Corey Ball's structured approach to attacking REST and GraphQL APIs: enumeration, auth flaws, business logic, mass assignment, and the testing harness around them.
Intermediate4/5Corey J. Ball