// What to read next
What to read after Kubernetes Security
Where to go after Kubernetes Security, picked from our catalog. The next step up from intermediate level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 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 Rice02 · 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 Gupta03 · 2021
Hacking Kubernetes
A threat-modeling tour of a Kubernetes cluster, component by component, that teaches you to harden defaults by first showing you how each one gets broken.
Intermediate4/5Andrew Martin, Michael Hausenblas04 · 2020
Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Google's site-reliability and security teams jointly write down what it actually takes to build systems that are both safe and dependable, from threat models and design reviews to rollback culture and crisis response.
Advanced5/5Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Adam Stubblefield05 · 2023
Security Chaos Engineering
Kelly Shortridge and Aaron Rinehart on treating security as a property of complex adaptive systems: instead of preventing failure, you continuously simulate it, and design the organization to learn from each result.
Advanced5/5Kelly Shortridge, Aaron Rinehart06 · 2025
Sécurité des architectures cloud
An expert-level book focused on securing an API management platform in a modern cloud environment, with a progressive, operational approach through to how artificial intelligence contributes to API cybersecurity.
Advanced4/5Joel Gauci07 · 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 Flow08 · 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 Burrough