1: History and Motivation
Evolution of application deployment over the past 20 years.
3: Installation and Set Up
Configure your local and remote lab environments.
4: Built-in Kubernetes Resources
Covers the resource types that are included with Kubernetes.
•Pod
•Job
5: Helm
Using helm to manage Kubernetes resources
6: Demo Application
Example microservice application.
7: Deploying the Demo Application
Kubernetes manifests to deploy the demo application.
8: Extending the Kubernetes API
Explore how custom resources can add functionality
9: Deploying Auxiliary Tooling
Install additional software to enhance the deployment.
10: Developer Experience
Improving the DevX when working with Kubernetes.
13: Cluster and Node Upgrades
How to safely upgrade your clusters and nodes.
14: Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
Implement CI/CD for your applications (with GitOps!)
Intro to Built in Resources
Kubernetes ships with a wide range of resource types. These objects are the building blocks used to deploy applications, expose them on the network, and manage their lifecycle.
In this module we'll take a quick tour of the most common resources, including:
- Namespaces to organize cluster resources
- Pods and higher level controllers like Deployments, ReplicaSets, Jobs, CronJobs, and DaemonSets
- Networking tools such as Services, Ingress, and the Gateway API
- Configuration and storage objects like ConfigMaps, Secrets, and PersistentVolumes
- RBAC resources for controlling access to the cluster
Each lesson links to manifest files in the course repository so you can try the examples yourself.
We'll revisit these types again when we build and deploy the demo application later in the course. For now, use this section as a high level map of what Kubernetes provides out of the box.