text: **Introduction**
  
  This part provides an overview of this first publication of a planned multi-volume series, and 
  introduces fundamental cloud concepts, topics and components. 
  
  The following chapters are included in this part: 
  
  (cid:2) Chapter 1, “Introduction to the Journey to the Cloud: Volume 1” on page 3 
  (cid:2) Chapter 2, “Introduction to containers and orchestration with Kubernetes” on page 7 
  (cid:2) Chapter 3, “IBM Cloud Paks: Middleware anywhere” on page 37 