Kubernetes Basics

Overview

Explore the fundamentals of Kubernetes through a comprehensive series of discussions, tutorials, and practical guides. Learn about GitOps integration with Microsoft Azure, gain insights from conversations with Brendan Burns on Kubernetes and career development, and delve into topics such as service meshes, application management with operators, and monitoring and alerting. Discover the intricacies of pod lifecycles, API customization, production readiness, role-based access control, configuration management, and secrets handling. Examine stateful applications, storage solutions, and common Kubernetes scenarios. Master the setup of build pipelines, understand the Kubernetes scheduler, explore serverless options, and grasp deployment mechanisms. Gain a solid foundation in Kubernetes operations and comprehend the significance of containerization in modern software development.

Syllabus

How to use GitOps with Microsoft Azure.
A conversation with Brendan Burns: What is Kubernetes?.
A conversation with Brendan Burns: Career Development.
How Service Meshes Work in Kubernetes.
Simple Application Management on Kubernetes with Operators.
Getting started With Monitoring and Alerting for Kubernetes.
How Pods and the Pod Lifecycle work in Kubernetes.
Customizing and Extending the Kubernetes API with Admission Controllers.
Getting production ready in Kubernetes.
Understand Role Based Access Control in Kubernetes.
How Kubernetes and Configuration Management works.
Understand secrets management in Kubernetes.
The basics of stateful applications in Kubernetes.
How volumes and storage work in Kubernetes.
Overview of common Kubernetes scenarios.
Setting up a Kubernetes build pipeline.
How the Kubernetes scheduler works.
Understand Serverless Kubernetes and Serverless on Kubernetes.
How Kubernetes deployments work.
How Kubernetes works.
Why you should care about containers.