In this page you’ll find the complete list of Kubernetes Tutorials:
- 70 Best Kubernetes Tutorials
- Kubernetes Beginner Tutorials
- Kubernetes Basic Tutorials
- Kubernetes AWS and Azure Tutorials
- Kops Tutorials
- Kubernetes Vagrant Tutorials
- Kubernetes OpenStack Tutorials
- Kubernetes Clustering and Federation Tutorials
- Kubernetes and the CI/CD Pipeline
- Kubernetes Networking Tutorials
- Kubernetes Helm Tutorials
- Kubernetes Node.js Tutorials
- Kubernetes Python/Django Tutorials
- Kubernetes with Other Frameworks: Ruby/Rails, Spring, Neo4j
- Kubernetes Monitoring and Prometheus Tutorials
- Kubernetes on Windows and Mac
- Kubernetes Tutorials in Other Environments
- Older Kubernetes Tutorials, But Still Worth a Look
- Just a Few Steps Away from Mastering Kubernetes…
What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform developed by Google for managing microservices or containerized applications across a distributed cluster of nodes. Kubernetes is highly resilient and supports zero downtime, rollback, scaling, and self-healing of containers. The main objective of Kubernetes is to hide the complexity of managing a fleet of containers. It can run on bare metal machines or on public or private cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and OpenStack. Kubernetes architecture follows a client-server architecture.
Main Components of the Kubernetes Master Server
- etcd cluster – a distributed key value storage that stores Kubernetes cluster data
- kube-apiserver – the central management entity that receives all REST requests for modifications to cluster elements
- kube-controller-manager – runs controller processes like replication controller (sets number of replicas in a pod) and endpoints controller (populates services, pods and other objects)
- cloud-controller-manager – responsible for managing controller processes with dependencies on the underlying cloud provider
- kube-scheduler – helps schedule the pods (a co-located group of containers inside which our application processes are running) on the cluster nodes based on resource utilization
Main components of the Kubernetes Node (Worker) Server
- kubelet – the main service on a node, taking in new or modified pod specifications from kube-apiserver, and ensuring that pods and containers are healthy and running
- kube-proxy – runs on each worker node to deal with individual host subnetting and expose services
kubectl is a command line tool that interacts with kube-apiserver and send commands to the master node. Each command is converted into an API call.
Kubernetes Tutorials
Kubernetes is a complex system, and learning step by step is the best way to gain expertise. In this page we’re compiled all the valuable Kubernetes tutorials from multiple sources – from the big players like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, to individual bloggers and community members. Tutorials are classified into the following categories:
- Kubernetes beginner tutorials – basic concepts, installation and deployment
- Kubernetes AWS and Azure tutorials – showing deployment on the popular public clouds, including kops, an official Kubernetes project that can help deploy production-grade clusters on AWS
- Kubernetes Vagrant tutorials – deploying Kubernetes using Vagrant, a tool for provisioning virtual environments
- Kubernetes OpenStack tutorials – deploying Kubernetes on an OpenStack, a popular private cloud platform
- Clustering and federation tutorials – Kubernetes clusters in-depth
- CI/CD tutorials – using Kubernetes to set up CI/CD and continuous deployment pipelines
- Networking tutorials – networking concepts, load balancing, security and more
- Helm tutorials – using the Helm package manager to create charts and deploy them easily on a Kubernetes cluster
- Kubernetes with popular languages and frameworks – Node.js, Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, Spring and Neo4j
- Monitoring tutorials – monitoring Kubernetes deployment using Prometheus and other tools.
- Kubernetes Windows and Mac tutorials – running Kubernetes on popular operating systems
- Kubernetes in other environments – including MongoDB, LAMP and SAP HANA
In this video, Arun Gupta, open source strategist for AWS and Raffaele Di Fazio, software engineer at Zalando, show common practices for running Kubernetes on AWS and share insights from experience in operating tens of Kubernetes clusters in production on AWS.
In this technical webcast, Shrinand Javadekar and Abhinav Das discuss their experiences running Kubernetes at scale on AWS, including problems they encountered, tips and best practices.
In this webinar Chris Hein from AWS and Stuart Williams from Weaveworks explore how Weaveworks utilizes Kubernetes and AWS to achieve greater development velocity without giving up control and operational efficiencies. They also cover how Weaveworks architected a fully cloud-native application based on Kubernetes and Prometheus on AWS.
Roopak Parikh Co-Founder and CTO of Platform9, talks about why Kubernetes Helm makes application deployment easy, standardized and reusable and why the use of Kubernetes Helm leads to better developer productivity, reduced Kubernetes deployment complexity and enhanced enterprise production readiness.
What Helm is and how it works. This session by Codefresh will have some fun in the terminal as well as the Codefresh UI to help us make sense of everything.
At KubeCon 2017, core maintainer for the Kubernetes Helm project Adam Reese and a cloud evangelist Lachlan Evenson delve into the depths of Helm, focusing on lifecycle management and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of Kubernetes-native applications in different environments and how to extend Helm’s capabilities with plugins and add-ons.
This video is a brief overview of the service abstraction, why it’s needed and how to specify pods in a service.
Teaches you how to use services to securely expose pods to internal and external consumers. Covers service discovery through environment variables and through DNS. Describes the differences between ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer service types.
Discusses the kind of problems Kubernetes Federation helps solve and how.
Covers use cases for network policies, the Network Policy API, how to configure network policies, and how the configured policies are enforced. Also covers other methods to secure applications at network and application layers, and how Network Policies relate to service mesh projects such as Istio.
Covers the networking options in Kubernetes and types of communications through Kubernetes services.
Covers services in Kubernetes, how service discovery works through environment variables and through DNS. Also describes the various types of services like ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer.
Kubernetes Beginner Tutorials
Kubernetes Basic Tutorials
Kubernetes AWS and Azure Tutorials
See more resources on Kubernetes AWS
Kops Tutorials
Kubernetes Vagrant Tutorials
Kubernetes OpenStack Tutorials
Kubernetes Clustering and Federation Tutorials
Kubernetes and the CI/CD Pipeline
Kubernetes Networking Tutorials
Kubernetes Helm Tutorials
Kubernetes Node.js Tutorials
Kubernetes Python/Django Tutorials
Kubernetes with Other Frameworks: Ruby/Rails, Spring, Neo4j
Kubernetes Monitoring and Prometheus Tutorials
Kubernetes on Windows and Mac
Kubernetes Tutorials in Other Environments
Older Kubernetes Tutorials, But Still Worth a Look
Just a Few Steps Away from Mastering Kubernetes…
Kubernetes is extremely powerful but has a steep learning curve. We hope this compilation of tutorials will help you make your next steps towards expertise in this important platform.
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