Quick Start Kubernetes

This 101 level course teaches the architecture of K8s and walks you through examples of deploying and managing apps

  • Nigel Poulton
  • 4.64
  • (155 reviews)
  • 1.5 hrs
  • 18 lectures
  • Udemy
Quick Start Kubernetes

What you will learn?

  • Master the fundamentals of Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes architecture
  • Buzzwords and jargon clearly explained
  • What a "cloud-native microservices" application actually is
  • How Kubernetes is a cluster and an application orchestrator
  • How to take application from code on a developers laptop to a running application
  • How to deploy, break, self-heal, scale and perform rolling updates on a simple application
  • Keeping everything simple, explaining everything as we go

Your trainer

Nigel Poulton

Nigel is a Kubernetes and Docker Video Trainer extraordinaire, a popular Author and highly sought-after Public Speaker at tech conferences around the world.

A popular figure in the container technology industry, best known for his mind-blowing Kubernetes and Docker Video Training Courses and Books. Nigel is no ordinary trainer; he gets inside your head and spurs you on to take your learning to the next level.

You’ll often see him leading Workshops and Sessions at tech conferences such as KubeCon, DockerCon and many others. He’s a Docker Captain and he believes that knowledge is power, and education is everything. So, from the minute he wakes up to when he falls asleep at night, he is always reading, listening and working on Kubernetes.

Nigel has trained over 1,000,000 people and is known for his passion and addictive style of teaching. Some trainers are forgettable, Nigel gets inside your head!

18 lessons

Easy to follow lectures and videos covering subject details.

1.5 hours

This course includes hours of video material. Watch on-demand, anytime, anywhere.

Certificate of Completion

You will earn a Certificate of Completion at the end of this course.

Course curriculum

Introduction04:14

  • Introduction04:14

  • Cloud-native microservices05:16
  • Kubernetes cluster03:30
  • Kubernetes Masters04:36
  • Kubernetes Nodes05:41

  • Hosted Kubernetes04:10
  • Development Workflow05:07
  • Kubernetes as an Orchestrator03:18
  • Desired state05:46

  • Getting Kubernetes04:56
  • Deploying a Pod07:51
  • Connecting via a Service09:17
  • Using Deployments04:57

  • Self-healing04:13
  • Scaling05:19
  • Cloud Load-balancers04:46
  • Rolling updates05:03

  • Bonus Lecture04:43
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