Elton Stoneman

Elton Stoneman is a consultant, a former architect at Docker, a Microsoft MVP, and a Pluralsight author.

books by Elton Stoneman

Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition

  • MEAP began February 2025
  • Last updated April 2025
  • Publication in August 2025 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633438460
  • 442 pages (estimated)
  • printed in black & white

Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition delivers the core skills you’ll need to do most Docker tasks in just 22 short lessons. The book is hands-on all the way. Each short chapter guides you through an essential concept, ending with a self-contained lab you can use to practice your new skill. The samples are all guaranteed to work on any Linux, Windows, or Mac system. You’ll explore building and running Docker apps in Go, Java, Node, and .NET, adding observability with monitoring dashboards, running databases in containers, running containers in the cloud, and migrating legacy systems to Docker. There's even a primer on using Kubernetes to manage your containers!

Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches

  • February 2021
  • ISBN 9781617297984
  • 592 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Polish, Simplified Chinese

Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches is your guide to getting up and running with Kubernetes. You'll progress from Kubernetes basics to essential skills, learning to model, deploy, and manage applications in production. Exercises demonstrate how Kubernetes works with multiple languages and frameworks. You'll also practice with new apps, legacy code, and serverless functions.

Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches

  • June 2020
  • ISBN 9781617297052
  • 464 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Complex Chinese, Korean, Polish

Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches introduces Docker concepts through a series of brief hands-on lessons. Follow­ing a learning path perfected by author Elton Stoneman, you’ll run containers by chapter 2 and package applications by chapter 3. Each lesson teaches a practical skill you can practice on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. By the end of the month you’ll know how to containerize and run any kind of application with Docker.