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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.

2 Lessons15:57
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Lessons

1

Lesson 1Intermediate7:57

Introduction to Kubectl

Almost everyone will use kubectl to talk to their Kubernetes cluster. In this lesson we’ll show some tips and tricks to level-up your kubectl-fu.

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Lesson 2Intermediate8:00

Introduction to Ingress

Ingress is an API that allows you to express how to get traffic into a cluster. It enables you to use common load balancer technologies and make them Kubernetes-aware. In this lesson, we’ll explore how to get traffic from an external source into our pods.

Instructors

John Harris

Hi! My name is John and I'm a Senior Cloud Native Architect @ VMware where I work with customers to help design and implement Kubernetes solutions, in addition to contributing back to upstream open source projects.

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Josh Rosso

I am a Staff Cloud Native Architect at VMware and have been working in the Kubernetes space for the last 3.5 years.

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