DevOps projects using Kubernetes: a hands-on guide

This class in one mile wide and one foot deep!

Welcome to DevOps projects using Kubernetes – a hands–on guide. This class is an intermediate to advanced level one. I designed it for anyone who has some basic DevOps and cloud (AWS) experience but they need hands–on labs to practice what they’ve learned.

Get ready to take your Kubernetes, AWS, and DevOps knowledge and experience to the next level by exploring how real–world companies use these technolgies.

In this class, you will find very little theory and very much hands–on. It’s important to understand how this course is designed before making the decision to enroll in it. For example, you will find many practical use–cases for Helm. But you will not find a reference to all Helm commands. I assume you already have some experience with that. I also assume that you have some Kubernetes and AWS knowledge so topics like StatefulSets, Deployments, Pods, and IAM roles, EC2 instances, and S3 buckets will not be explained from scratch.

Having said that, let’s explore what this class covers:

More than one way to deploy Kubernetes on AWS. Although most companies choose the easy option which is using EKS for deploying Kubernetes, there are other ways available like kops. If you don’t want to use a tool, you can even do it the hard way using kubeadm. We’ll see how we can semi–automate the process using Terraform and Packer.