Christopher Love

Chris Love is a Google Cloud Certified Fellow and a co-founder of Lionkube. He has over 25 years of software and IT engineering experience with companies including Google, Oracle, VMware, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, and others. As a thought leader within Kubernetes and the DevOps community, Chris Love has contributed to many open source projects, including Kubernetes, kops (former AWS SIG lead), Bazel (contributed to Kubernetes rules), and Terraform (an early contributor to the VMware plugin). His professional interests include IT culture transformation, containerization technologies, automated testing frameworks and practices, Kubernetes, Golang AKA Go, and other programming languages. Love also enjoys speaking around the world about DevOps, Kubernetes, and technology, as well as mentoring people in the IT and software industries.

Outside of work, Love enjoys skiing, volleyball, yoga, and other outdoor activities that come with living in Colorado. He’s also been a practicing martial artist for over 20 years.

If you’re interested in having virtual coffee or have questions for Chris, you can contact him at @chrislovecnm on Twitter or LinkedIn.

books & projects by Christopher Love

Centralized Logging in the Cloud with Elasticsearch and Kibana
5 weeks · 7-10 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
Included with a Manning Online subscription
catalog / Software Development

Accurate and reliable logging is the cornerstone of good DevOps, allowing developers to easily spot problems and speed up their development processes. In this liveProject, you’ll learn to deliver cloud-based logging by stepping into the role of an SRE for an online retail startup.


You’ll go hands-on to deliver a cost-effective solution that gathers site logs in a central place in real time, then allows users to interact with those logs through an application interface. Your challenges include building your application infrastructure, creating the configuration to send logs to AWS Elasticsearch, and deploying an Elasticsearch cluster on EC2 instances. By the time you’ve completed your project, you’ll be able to use AWS, Terraform, and more to deliver log access and availability—an essential part of any IT infrastructure.


You’ll be able to complete this liveProject with just the resources provided by the free tier of AWS.

Core Kubernetes
  • May 2022
  • ISBN 9781617297557
  • 336 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Russian
catalog / Software Development / Cloud / Containerization / Kubernetes

This book is a tour of Kubernetes under the hood, from managing iptables to setting up dynamically scaled clusters that respond to changes in load. Every page will give you new insights on setting up and managing Kubernetes and dealing with inevitable curveballs. Core Kubernetes is a comprehensive reference guide to maintaining Kubernetes deployments in production.