The Kubernetes hype train has reached full velocity and many organisations are now adopting the technology. The Kubernetes ecosystem can be very operator focused and it can be a challenge for developers to distill the information that is relevant for their job. There are a large number of available tools aimed at solving a broad set of problems but it can be daunting choosing which to invest in. This tutorial aims to provide developers with a thorough grounding on Kubernetes concepts, suggest best practices and get hands-on with some of the essential tooling.
After working with a PaaS where the developer has just one single command to deploy the applications: cf push, heroku deploy or gcloud app deploy.
They abstract from a huge amount of complexity.
The experience coming to kubernetes is far from that.
There are many tools for each phase of the lifecycle increasing the learning curve.
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How to operate or deploy a k8s cluster.
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K8s architecture will be treated as a black box and only the necessary will be described.