Kubernetes Essential Training: Application Development

Take your Kubernetes knowledge from theory to practice. Learn how to use Kubernetes to develop and run real-world applications.

Introduction

• Kubernetes for developers
• Getting started with Kubernetes

1. Getting Started with Your Cluster

• Running a local Kubernetes cluster with Minikube
• Running your first container
• Serving from your Pod
• Exposing your Pod to the outside world
• Handling ingress in Kubenetes

2. Exploring the Cluster

• Taking a look around with kubectl
• Viewing logs for pods
• Remotely executing commands
• A web view of the cluster with the Kubernetes Dashboard

3. Real-World Workloads

• Orchestrating real-world workloads with deployments and StatefulSets
• Safe upgrades with rolling updates and rollbacks
• Batch processing with jobs and CronJobs

4. Teaching K8s about Your Service

• Ensuring availability with liveness and readiness probes
• Managing resource usage with requests and limits
• The scheduler and influencing container placement
• Node affinity and anti-affinity
• The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
• Providing configuration with ConfigMaps
• Supplying sensitive data with Secrets
• Keeping secure with network policies
• Role-based access control in Kubernetes
• Working with RBAC

5. Advanced Deployment Patterns

• Namespaces in Kubernetes
• Working with namespaces
• Adding functionality with sidecars
• Adding a service mesh using sidecars
• Analyzing traffic with Linkerd
• Extending Kubernetes with operators and Custom Resource Definitions

6. Development Tools

• Tools for DRY deployments: Motivation
• Tools for DRY deployments: Helm
• Tools for DRY deployments: Kustomize
• Tools for DRY deployments: Advice
• Advanced Debugging: kubectl debug
• Advanced Debugging: nixery.dev
• Advanced Debugging: kubectl sniff
• Just like being there: skaffold
• Just like being there: telepresence
• Running your clusters

Conclusion

• Where to find additional information