Kubernetes for Beginners: Hands-On from Pods to Production Features
A hands-on Kubernetes course that starts with why orchestration exists and the cluster architecture, then builds up through Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, storage, configuration, health probes, autoscaling, RBAC and scheduling. Most topics have the instructor writing YAML manifests live on a local Minikube or KIND cluster and troubleshooting errors. It suits learners who already know basic Docker and want to deploy and operate applications on Kubernetes.
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What You'll Learn
- Explain what Kubernetes adds on top of Docker, and describe the roles of the API server, etcd, scheduler, controller manager, kubelet and kube-proxy
- Set up a local cluster with KIND or Minikube and use core kubectl commands to create, inspect, edit, debug and delete resources
- Write Kubernetes YAML manifests for Namespaces, Pods, Deployments, ReplicaSets, DaemonSets, StatefulSets, Jobs and CronJobs
- Run rolling updates and rollbacks, and use labels and selectors to connect Services to Pods
- Expose applications with ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer Services, Ingress and the Gateway API
- Provide storage and configuration with Volumes, PersistentVolumes, PVCs, StorageClasses, ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Configure probes, resource requests and limits, HPA/VPA, RBAC and ServiceAccounts, and node scheduling with taints, tolerations and node affinity
Prerequisites
- Basic Docker knowledge: images, containers and running a container from the command line
- Comfort with a terminal and a text editor
- A computer able to run Docker and a local Minikube or KIND cluster
Course Curriculum
- 1Course Introduction: Kubernetes Hands-On Series2:35
- 2Why Kubernetes? Docker vs Kubernetes8:27
- 3What Is Kubernetes? Container Orchestration and Desired State6:54
- 4Kubernetes Architecture: Control Plane and Worker Node Components27:43
- 5Installing a Cluster with KIND, Minikube and Kubeadm48:35
- 6Kubernetes Terminology Explained16:05
- 7Essential kubectl Commands30:07
- 8Pods: Multi-Container, Sidecar and Pause Container20:20
- 9Writing Kubernetes YAML Manifests from Scratch53:50
- 10Namespaces: Create, Use and Delete34:51
- 11Labels and Selectors59:18
- 12Deployments: Create, Describe and Scale35:41
- 13ReplicaSet vs Deployment: Self-Healing and Rolling Updates1:18:21
- 14Rolling Updates and Rollbacks: Zero-Downtime Deployments51:42
- 15DaemonSets: Run a Pod on Every Node1:00:25
- 16Jobs and CronJobs1:27:38
- 17StatefulSets: Headless Service and MySQL Demo45:36
- 18Kubernetes Networking Basics: Pod IP, ClusterIP and Services42:29
- 19Services: Port vs TargetPort, Endpoints and DNS57:55
- 20Service Types: ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer57:14
- 21Ingress: NGINX Ingress Controller, Host and Path Routing1:31:21
- 22Pod Networking: Pod-to-Pod Communication and CNI1:20:56
- 23Gateway API: From Ingress Annotations to HTTPRoute1:53:55
- 24Volumes: emptyDir and hostPath1:06:23
- 25PersistentVolumes: Lifecycle and Reclaim Policy44:01
- 26PersistentVolumeClaims24:09
- 27StorageClass and Dynamic Volume Provisioning33:19
- 28ConfigMaps: Env Variables, envFrom and Mounted Files57:02
- 29Secrets: Base64, envFrom, Volumes and Best Practices59:54
- 30Probes: Liveness, Readiness and Startup33:21
- 31Requests and Limits: CPU, Memory, QoS and OOMKilled31:42
- 32Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with Metrics Server42:35
- 33Vertical Pod Autoscaler38:30
- 34RBAC: Role, RoleBinding, ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding44:16
- 35Service Accounts: Tokens, RBAC and kubectl auth can-i34:19
- 36Taints and Tolerations27:21
- 37Node Affinity: Required vs Preferred16:35
About the Instructor
Shubham gour
YouTube creator
The lessons in this course were produced by Shubham gour and are published on YouTube. YodaHut selected and sequenced them into this course; we did not make them, and Shubham gour is not affiliated with YodaHut.
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