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70 Best Kubernetes Tutorials

70 Best Kubernetes Tutorials

Valuable Kubernetes tutorials from multiple sources, classified into the following categories: Kubernetes AWS and Azure tutorials, networking tutorials, clustering and federation tutorials and more.

In this page: The complete list of Kubernetes Tutorials

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 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.

High level Kubernetes architecture showing a cluster with a master and two worker nodes (image source)

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

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...

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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Further Reading

For many more resources on using and managing Kubernetes, see the additional topics below:


Top Kubernetes Video Tutorials

AWS re:Invent 2017: Mastering Kubernetes on AWS (CON308)

A lot of progress has been made on how to bootstrap a cluster since Kubernetes' first commit and is now only a matter of minutes to go from zero to a running cluster on Amazon Web Services. However, evolving a simple Kubernetes architecture to be ready for production in a large enterprise can quickly become overwhelming with options for configuration and customization.

AWS re:Invent 2017: Mastering Kubernetes on AWS

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.

Scale Kubernetes on AWS - technical webcast

In this technical webcast, Shrinand Javadekar and Ahbinav Das discuss our experiences running Kubernetes at scale on AWS, including problems we encountered and our tips and best practices.

Scale Kubernetes on AWS - technical webcast

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.

Deploy, Troubleshoot and Control Kubernetes Powered Containers and Microservices on AWS

Learn more about AWS Container Partners at - http://amzn.to/2zzqoLi In this webinar we explore how Weaveworks utilizes Kubernetes and AWS to achieve greater development velocity without giving up control and operational efficiencies. Weaveworks operates Weave Cloud, an intuitive operations Platform as a Service (PaaS) for app developers on AWS.

Deploy, Troubleshoot and Control Kubernetes Powered Containers and Microservices on AWS

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.

Kubernetes Helm: Why It Matters

Kubernetes Helm makes application deployment easy, standardized and reusable. Use of Kubernetes Helm leads to better developer productivity, reduced Kubernetes deployment complexity and enhanced enterprise production readiness. Enterprises using Kubernetes Helm can speed up the adoption of cloud native applications. These applications can be sourced from open-source community provided repositories, or from an organization's internal repository of customized application blueprints.

Kubernetes Helm: Why It Matters

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.

Intro to Helm for Kubernetes

What Helm is and how it works. Today's session will have some fun in the terminal as well as the Codefresh UI to help us make sense of everything.

Intro to Helm for Kubernetes

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.

Delve into Helm: Advanced DevOps [I] - Lachlan Evenson & Adam Reese, Deis

Delve into Helm: Advanced DevOps [I] - Lachlan Evenson & Adam Reese, Deis Helm is not just for simple applications running in simple environments. In this talk, we delve into the depths of Helm, focusing on lifecycle management and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of Kubernetes-native applications in different environments.

Delve into Helm: Advanced DevOps

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. 

Services Overview

This video is part of the Udacity course "Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes". Watch the full course at https://www.udacity.com/course/ud615

Services Overview

This video is a brief overview of the service abstraction, why it’s needed and how to specify pods in a service.

Kubernetes Webinar Series - Understanding Service Discovery

Services in Kubernetes act as the glue between various objects that communicate with each other. In this webinar, we will learn how to use Services to securely expose Pods to internal and external consumers. This session builds upon the concepts of Pods, Replica Sets that were covered in the previous webinars.

Understanding Service Discovery

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.

Keynote: Kubernetes Federation - Kelsey Hightower, Google

Keynote: Kubernetes Federation - Kelsey Hightower, Google About Kelsey Hightower Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile.

Kubernetes Federation

Discusses the kind of problems Kubernetes Federation helps solve and how.

Securing Cluster Networking with Network Policies - Ahmet Balkan, Google

Securing Cluster Networking with Network Policies - Ahmet Balkan, Google In a secure microservices cluster, you should only have the pods that need to communicate with each other to be able to establish network connections, and block all others. But how? Until recently, Kubernetes users could not enforce policies for container networking.

Securing Cluster Networking with Network Policies

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.

Networking with Kubernetes

In this lightboard talk, Nathan Ness walks through the networking options in Kubernetes and explains the types of communications through Kubernetes services. For more information, please visit the VMware's Cloud-Native Apps website: https://cloud.vmware.com/cloud-native-apps

Networking with Kubernetes

Covers the networking options in Kubernetes and types of communications through Kubernetes services.

Kubernetes Webinar Series - Understanding Service Discovery

Services in Kubernetes act as the glue between various objects that communicate with each other. In this webinar, we will learn how to use Services to securely expose Pods to internal and external consumers. This session builds upon the concepts of Pods, Replica Sets that were covered in the previous webinars.

Understanding Service Discovery

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.

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