Courses

Unlock your full potential with Kubernetes

KubeAcademy’s expert instructors design and deliver each course to give you practical Kubernetes training.

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Getting Started with Kubernetes
Beginner

Getting Started with Kubernetes

The Getting Started with Kubernetes course is designed to help students navigate the cloud native ecosystem. Learn why cloud native and Kubernetes are becoming an important must-know technology today!

6 Lessons
40m
Containers 101
Beginner

Containers 101

This course lays the groundwork for your Kubernetes journey. You’ll learn foundational knowledge on containers and how they work.

Kubernetes 101
Beginner

Kubernetes 101

This course lays out the case for container orchestration and provides an overview of the concepts underlying Kubernetes, the leading container orchestration platform.

2 Lessons
15m
Frequently Asked Questions
Beginner

Frequently Asked Questions

The cloud native world is deep and wide. In order to help you navigate questions you may have we created a course that is a series of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to help you get quick answers to questions you may have and help you determine if you want to learn more about a particular topic.

Building Applications for Kubernetes
Beginner

Building Applications for Kubernetes

This course is for developers that are new to building applications to run on Kubernetes. It covers how to build container images, run your app locally on Kubernetes, tools you can use to improve your workflow, and how to manage manifests for deployment.

Hands-On with Kubernetes and Containers
Beginner

Hands-On with Kubernetes and Containers

During this hands-on exercise, you’ll walk through how to build a container image for an application, push the image to a container registry, and deploy the application to a Kubernetes cluster.

3 Lessons
32m
Introduction to Kubernetes for the Virtual Infrastructure Administrator
Beginner

Introduction to Kubernetes for the Virtual Infrastructure Administrator

This course explains how Kubernetes is an infrastructure platform and gives a brief overview of how the evolution of infrastructure modernization led us to Kubernetes. The course also explores the opportunities Virtual Infrastructure Administrators have in owning Kubernetes as their next platform.

5 Lessons
36m
Interactive Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes
Beginner

Interactive Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes

Ready to dive a little deeper into the world of Kubernetes? Get up to speed on the first principles of a cloud native infrastructure, then learn how to containerize and deploy a Kubernetes application in our lab environment.

4 Lessons
1h 36m
The Business Case for Kubernetes
Beginner

The Business Case for Kubernetes

Businesses are rapidly modernizing their applications and they want to understand the whole ecosystem of solutions. This course demonstrates how your teams can take advantage of Kubernetes and the ecosystem. Focusing on how Kubernetes can enhance teams’ work cycles with its flexible and extensible architecture.

Kubernetes in Depth
Beginner

Kubernetes in Depth

From Kubernetes architecture to quick dives into Kubernetes object types. The Kubernetes in Depth course covers the concepts you’ll need to understand how Kubernetes works.

CKAD Practice
Beginner

CKAD Practice

This course is a port of Liptan Biswas' CKAD practice challenge. It provides an environment that can be launched quickly and on-demand, and designed to allow you to practice for the CKAD certification exam. This resource is by no means exhaustive, so be sure to consult additional references as you prepare to take your examination.

Kubernetes Platform Security
Beginner

Kubernetes Platform Security

As businesses move more applications to Kubernetes, developers and platform operators need to secure those applications and platforms. This course demonstrates concepts and tools your teams can use to secure Kubernetes for applications.

7 Lessons
1h 5m
Introduction To Building Application Platforms with Kubernetes
Beginner

Introduction To Building Application Platforms with Kubernetes

This course helps you understand the capabilities required to build an application platform with Kubernetes. You’ll see an overview of Kubernetes’ architecture and extensibility, and learn about common tooling options and trade-offs that are necessary when taking your application to production with Kubernetes.

Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 1 - Platform
Beginner

Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 1 - Platform

Get up to speed on the first principles of a cloud native infrastructure, then learn how to containerize and deploy a Kubernetes application in our lab environment.

7 Lessons
2h 21m
Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 2 - Managing Applications
Beginner

Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 2 - Managing Applications

Getting your application successfully deployed and working in Kubernetes is the first step. Deploying updated versions and handling configuration changes between environments are next steps that need to be addressed. In this course we teach you the standardized features and approaches for handling deployment lifecycle and application configuration in Kubernetes.

5 Lessons
1h 21m
Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 3 - Cluster Concepts
Intermediate

Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 3 - Cluster Concepts

Running a single application in a single Kubernetes cluster is uncommon. Typically there will be many applications running in the same cluster and also many different clusters in your organization. This course teaches you the networking considerations for getting traffic to your different applications in the same cluster. We also share advice and considerations

5 Lessons
1h 21m
Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 4 - Additional Application Features
Intermediate

Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 4 - Additional Application Features

Applications have various complexity and typically, when first learning and using Kubernetes, simple applications, like web servers, are deployed and used. Applications that need persistent storage and are configured differently per environment have additional requirements. In this course we cover the features of Kubernetes that satisfy these requirements.

5 Lessons
1h 21m
Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 5 - Workloads and Security
Intermediate

Kubernetes Core Concepts: Part 5 - Workloads and Security

Most applications people first deploy to Kubernetes are servers that run until they crash or are intentionally shut down. In this course, you’ll learn the other types of workloads that Kubernetes is capable of running and security related concerns to apply to each.

4 Lessons
56m
Interacting with Kubernetes
Intermediate

Interacting with Kubernetes

Understanding how Kubernetes works is important, but equally important is understanding how to interact with Kubernetes. This course provides an overview on Kubectl and ingress, two necessary components for interacting with Kubernetes.

How to Prepare for the CKA Exam
Intermediate

How to Prepare for the CKA Exam

The CKAD certification is the globally recognized IT certification for the industry’s fastest-growing technology—Kubernetes. This course lays out a learning path for exam preparation. We'll cover the exam format, how the exam is scored, and study resources.

9 Lessons
2h
Integrating with Cloud Providers
Intermediate

Integrating with Cloud Providers

This course dives into the usage of a Kubernetes cloud provider to interact with underlying infrastructure components such as storage devices and load balancers.

6 Lessons
36m
Cluster Operations
Intermediate

Cluster Operations

In this course, you'll learn how to bootstrap Kubernetes clusters using various community tools. We'll also dive into topics like authentication, role-based access control, and backing up and restoring Kubernetes objects and clusters.

Building Images
Intermediate

Building Images

This course covers different approaches for building images. By the end of this course, you'll be well positioned to start building images easily and maintain them over time.

8 Lessons
1h 3m
Introduction to Observability
Intermediate

Introduction to Observability

When developing applications for Kubernetes, a distributed system, Developers and Platform Engineers need to know how to monitor these applications and know how their services impact their business. This course walks through several options for getting observability into your applications and systems, including short demonstrations of how these systems work in a Kubernetes cluster.

8 Lessons
39m
Operational Considerations for Virtual Infrastructure Administrators
Intermediate

Operational Considerations for Virtual Infrastructure Administrators

This course covers operational considerations tailored for virtual infrastructure administrators who want to build a Kubernetes stack for development teams.

6 Lessons
1h 21m
Helm 101
Intermediate

Helm 101

The Helm 101 is the perfect starting point for understanding, creating and managing Kubernetes workloads using Helm. Create, deploy and update your own Helm chart with this course!

Networking in Kubernetes
Advanced

Networking in Kubernetes

Pods running in a Kubernetes cluster have to be able to communicate among themselves as well as with the outside world. In this advanced-level course, we will look at the Kubernetes network model and how pods are connected to the network to satisfy it. We'll also touch on what the Container Network Interface (CNI) is and how different CNI providers deal with implementing it.

The Kubernetes Machine
Advanced

The Kubernetes Machine

Kubernetes is one of the most popular open source software projects in the world and is an excellent example of a distributed software system. This course is about the Kubernetes machine, its design principles and components. In this course you will learn how Kubernetes works and what makes it so effective as a container orchestration system.

11 Lessons
1h 4m
Cluster API
Advanced

Cluster API

The Cluster API is a Kubernetes project to bring declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster creation, configuration, and management. This tooling can be leveraged to manage your Kubernetes estate as first-class Kubernetes objects. In this course, we'll review the components, resources, and providers of Cluster API, as well as providing an overview of provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters with Cluster API.

10 Lessons
1h 37m
Introduction to Operators
Advanced

Introduction to Operators

Kubernetes operators offer a powerful method for managing workloads in Kubernetes. This course will introduce you to what operators are and how they work. We’ll demonstrate some operators in use and guide you through how to build one to meet custom requirements.

Kubernetes Platform Design
Intermediate

Kubernetes Platform Design

This course will discuss the typical platform addons that are not part of basic Kubernetes. System administrators and Cluster Operators will learn the skills of operating an existing built cluster.

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