From Zero to Hero: Kubernetes for Developers

Learn how to use Kubernetes as a Developer from beginning to mastery

About This Course

Kubernetes (or K8s for short) has categorically won the container orchestration war. When people think of running a system using containers, no technology even comes close to the versatility and popularity of Kubernetes. It is a crucial skill that every developer working in modern software should have mastery over. Dan will teach you what Kubernetes is and how to use it in this massive course, from the basics to some of its most advanced features. This course is tailored towards software engineers or developers with existing knowledge of some programming language but no idea what Kubernetes is or how it works. Don't miss your chance to take this course and learn one of the most requested skills of any job description.

Course Curriculum

5h 45m 21 sections

Welcome

0:57 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

1:48 Free preview

Who is the course for and prerequisites

0:52 Free preview

What is Kubernetes?

2:30

Introduction to Kubernetes

5:19

Teaser demo

5:34

Docker Desktop and Minikube

1:30

KinD

1:59

Authentication and the kube config file

2:53

Kubectl, imperative commands, and Contexts

8:04

K9s

4:19

Lens / OpenLens

1:03

VsCode and IDE integration

2:11

Your first declarative Deployment

4:59

ReplicaSets

3:21

Rolling updates and strategies

6:25

Readiness/liveness/startup probes

11:27

Resource limits and requests

5:26

Sidecar containers and their use-cases

4:55

Types of Services

4:51

Demo

8:11

How Services actually work under the hood

6:02

Ingresses, and why we need them

2:14

Demo

7:31

TLS

7:44

A better local development experience

2:46

Configmaps

15:42

Secrets

3:08

Jobs and Cronjobs

16:24

Storage

19:12

StatefulSets

11:18

DaemonSets

3:49

Architecture overview

5:46

Node Taints and Tolerations

11:40

Cordoning and Draining nodes

2:17

Overview

0:29

CRDs

6:22

Operators

4:26

Overview

1:18

Kustomize

10:35

Helm

11:56

RBAC

16:17

Network policies

8:04

Overview

0:50

Metrics server and Horizontal Pod Autoscalers

5:24

Prometheus stack

4:37

OpenTelemetry with Prometheus, Loki, and Jaeger

25:09

Service meshes

9:24

Managed Kubernetes Services

3:55

Rancher

6:00

DIY with kubeadm

2:25

Overview

0:22

Easy LetsEncrypt certificates with cert-manager

7:33

kubectx and kubens

3:24

Kubernetes Dashboard

5:17

Authenticating with container registries

3:17

Parsing kubectl output with jq

2:19

Course conclusion

2:01

Meet Your Instructor

Dan Clarke

Dan Clarke

Dan Clarke is an independent software developer and consultant, specialising in .NET, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes. He's a Microsoft MVP; speaker; hosts The Unhandled Exception podcast; runs the .NET Oxford user-group; and also has a YouTube channel covering various programming topics.

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