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!)
Other K8s Operators Worth Exploring
Kubernetes has a vast ecosystem of operators that extend the core platform. Below are a few noteworthy projects mentioned in the video. You can find examples for some of these tools in the companion repository.
Certificates and Secrets
- Cert Manager – automatically provisions and renews TLS certificates and integrates nicely with popular Ingress controllers.
- External Secrets Operator – mirrors secrets from external providers into Kubernetes secrets. We explore this operator further in the Developer Experience module.
Observability
- Datadog or Grafana Cloud – hosted observability suites.
- Prometheus, Grafana and Loki – common open source stack for metrics and logs.
Cluster Management
- GitOps Tools like Argo CD or Flux keep your cluster configuration in sync with Git.
- Service Meshes (Istio, Linkerd, etc.) add traffic management and security between services.
- Open Policy Agent enforces compliance policies for what may run in your cluster.
- Crossplane provides infrastructure as code using Kubernetes APIs.
- Knative enables serverless workloads on an existing cluster.
- KubeVirt manages virtual machines with Kubernetes primitives.
- Velero offers backup and restore for clusters and persistent volumes.
These projects highlight how flexible Kubernetes can be. Explore the landscape and select the tools that best match your needs as your platform grows.