Frequently Asked Questions

What are the driving factors that led to the creation of containers?

Understanding the basics of Containers by visiting this fundamental question.

Comparing and contrasting the differences between Containers and Virtual Machines.

High level overview of what Kubernetes is and what it bring to the table.

Kubernetes has become the most popular container orchestration platform despite being launched later than alternative platforms. In this FAQ, we address some of the factors that helped Kubernetes achieve that status despite alternative solutions.

What is the Pod object in Kubernetes, how does it work, and why do we need it?

How to make a Hello World image and run a container from it.

Watch this short video on resource organization and how to use namespaces.

A quick video to describe the overview, principles, and operational use cases of GitOps

Learn more about what is YAML in this quick introductory video.

Learn how yaml is applied to Kubernetes to create and read objects.

In this lesson, you will learn about the API server.

Take this lesson to learn what a config map is.

Learn about Carvel, an open source, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project.

Understand what labels and their functions are in Kubernetes.

Learn about a Kubernetes cluster and its composition.

Learn what the OPA (open policy agent) is and how it's used make policy decisions for your software.