Kubernetes, Hands On — Read-Only Preview

Go from zero to production-ready Kubernetes.

Short explanations, then your hands on a real local cluster. This page is a preview of the lessons, diagrams, and quizzes — the real course pairs them with labs graded against a live Kubernetes cluster, which this static preview can't run.

Start reading: Why Kubernetes · Control Plane vs Nodes

Curriculum

Module 1

Why Kubernetes

Architecture, control plane vs nodes, the reconciliation loop.

Module 2

Pods, Labels, Selectors, Namespaces

The smallest deployable unit, how you organize and find things.

Module 3

Deployments & Rolling Updates

ReplicaSets, rolling updates, and rollbacks.

Module 4

Services & Cluster DNS

ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, and CoreDNS.

Module 5

ConfigMaps & Secrets

Externalizing configuration and sensitive data.

Module 6

Probes, Resources & QoS

Liveness/readiness/startup probes, requests/limits, QoS classes.

Module 7

Storage

Volumes, PV/PVC, StorageClasses, StatefulSets.

Module 8

Ingress & Gateway API

Routing HTTP(S) traffic into the cluster.

Module 9

Jobs, CronJobs, DaemonSets

Run-to-completion and per-node workloads.

Module 10

Scheduling

Taints, tolerations, affinity, topology spread.

Module 11

RBAC, Pod Security & NetworkPolicies

Who can do what, and who can talk to whom.

Module 12

Helm & Kustomize

Packaging and templating manifests.

Module 13

Observability & Troubleshooting

Logs, events, describe, metrics, a structured debugging method.

Module 14

Autoscaling

HPA, VPA, cluster autoscaling concepts (Karpenter).

Module 15

Production on AWS EKS

VPC CNI, IRSA/Pod Identity, load balancers, storage, cost.

Module 16

Capstone

A realistic multi-tier app, graded end-to-end.