From Zero to Hero: Kubernetes for Developers

Learn Kubernetes from scratch with this comprehensive course for developers. Covering everything from installation to advanced features, you'll gain the skills to manage containerized applications.

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 46m 21 sections

Welcome

00:57 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

01:48 Free preview

Who is this course for and prerequisites

00:52 Free preview

What is Kubernetes?

02:30

Introduction to Kubernetes

05:19

Teaser demo

05:34

Docker Desktop and Minikube

01:30

KinD

01:59

Authentication and the kube config file

02:53

Kubectl, imperative commands, and Contexts

08:04

K9s

04:19

Lens / OpenLens

01:03

VsCode and IDE integration

02:11

Your first declarative Deployment

04:59

ReplicaSets

03:21

Rolling updates and strategies

06:25

Readiness/liveness/startup probes

11:27

Resource limits and requests

05:26

Sidecar containers and their use-cases

04:55

Types of Services

04:51

Demo

08:11

How Services actually work under the hood

06:02

Ingresses, and why we need them

02:14

Demo

07:31

TLS

07:44

A better local development experience

02:46

Configmaps

15:42

Secrets

03:08

Jobs and Cronjobs

16:24

Storage

19:12

StatefulSets

11:17

DaemonSets

03:49

Architecture overview

05:46

Node Taints and Tolerations

11:40

Cordoning and Draining nodes

02:17

Overview

00:29

CRDs

06:22

Operators

04:26

Overview

01:18

Kustomize

10:35

Helm

11:55

RBAC

16:17

Network policies

08:04

Overview

00:50

Metrics server and Horizontal Pod Autoscalers

05:24

Prometheus stack

04:37

OpenTelemetry with Prometheus, Loki, and Jaeger

25:09

Service meshes

09:24

Managed Kubernetes Services

03:55

Rancher

06:00

DIY with kubeadm

02:25

Overview

00:22

Easy LetsEncrypt certificates with cert-manager

07:33

kubectx and kubens

03:24

Kubernetes Dashboard

05:17

Authenticating with container registries

03:17

Parsing kubectl output with jq

02:19

Course conclusion

02:00

Course Details

Level From Zero to Hero

Duration

Rating

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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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