Kubernetes Mastery

Develop and Deploy Cloud Native Applications at Scale

Section 1 – Introduction

L1 Introduction

Section 2 – Project Files

L1 Project Files

Section 3 – Why Kubernetes Dominates the Cloud

L1 Why Kubernetes Dominates the Cloud (Kubernetes Overview)

Section 4 – Downloads and Setup

L1 Docker Desktop Linux Containers

L2 Setting Up a Single-Node Kubernetes Cluster

L3 VS Code Kubernetes Extension Setup

Section 5 – Pods and Containers

L1 Pods and Containers

L2 Extra Practice (Grade Submission API)

Section 6 – Service Discovery

L1 Service Discovery

Section 7 – Namespace

L1 Namespace

Section 8 – Resiliency and Self Healing

L1 Resiliency and Self Healing

Section 9 – Deployments and Pod Replicas

L1 Deployments and Pod Replicas

L2 Automated Deployment

Section 10 – Rolling Updates and Rollbacks

L1 Rolling Updates and Rollbacks

Section 11 – Liveness and Readiness Probes

L1 Liveness and Readiness Probes

Section 12 – StatefulSet and Persistent Volumes

L1 Anatomy of a Connection String

L2 StatefulSet and Persistent Volumes

L3 Database Authentication

Section 13 – ConfigMap and Secret

L1 ConfigMap and Secret

Section 14 – Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)

L1 Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

L2 Follow-up

Section 15 – Ingress Controller

L1 Ingress Controller

L2 Nginx Retirement

Section 16 – Helm Charts

L1 Action Required - Installing Helm (Mac)

L2 Action Required - Installing Helm (Windows)

L3 Installing Helm Charts

L4 Upgrading our Helm Charts

Section 17 – Helm Package Manager

L1 Helm Package Manager

Section 18 – Kubernetes Operators

L1 Kubernetes Operators

L2 Cleaning Up

Section 19 – Preparing for Deployment

L1 Roadmap

L2 Setting up an AWS Account and IAM User

L3 Setting up AWS CLI (Mac)

L4 Setting up AWS CLI (Windows)

L5 Setting up eksctl (Mac)

L6 Setting up eksctl (Windows)

Section 20 – Deploying to AWS

L1 Deploying to AWS

L2 Final Clean Up

Section 21 – Next Course

L1 Next Step - Kubernetes RBAC Training

Introduction

Key Takeaways

Kubernetes Dominance: Since Google open-sourced Kubernetes in 2014, it has become the de facto standard for managing cloud-native applications at scale, supported by virtually every major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

Core Kubernetes Components: The course covers essential Kubernetes primitives including Pods for containerized applications, Services for application communication, Namespaces for resource organization, Deployments for application scaling, and StatefulSets for database workloads.

Advanced Features: You'll master sophisticated Kubernetes capabilities like Persistent Volumes for storage, ConfigMaps and Secrets for configuration management, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler for automatic scaling, Ingress Controllers for external access, and Helm Charts for simplified deployments.

Real-World Application: The course culminates with deploying a complete Kubernetes cluster to Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing hands-on experience with cloud-native application deployment and management in production environments.