CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Thanos Unleashed: Mastering the Challenges of Production-Scale Metrics

A production case study on scaling Thanos metrics ingestion and queries while meeting availability and performance needs.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tools for Resolving Difficult Conflicts in Open Source Communities and Projects

Practical tools help open-source community leaders mediate conflict inclusively and keep their communities productive.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Cluster Killer Bug: Learning API Priority and Fairness in Kubernetes

A controller bug that nearly bricked a Kubernetes cluster reveals how API Priority and Fairness works and how to tune and troubleshoot it.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Supercharge Your Software Supply Chain Security Strategy with Multi-SBOM Integration

Learn how combining SBOM formats and generators can improve software component coverage and accuracy for supply chain security.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scalable Strategies for Migrating to OpenTelemetry

A case study in planning a gradual OpenTelemetry migration from a mixed observability stack, including Collector deployment at scale.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Sustainability and Efficiency: Environmentally-Friendly Software Development with Kube-Green

Learn how Kubernetes tooling and changes across the software lifecycle can reduce the carbon footprint of cloud native applications.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OpenTelemetry Tracing for Monoliths

Learn how monolithic applications benefit from tracing, including how to add context to traces while keeping existing logs usable.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scaling ML Pipelines on Kubernetes Using Tekton - Overcoming Complexity

Custom Tekton tasks remove single-pod limits so ML pipelines can pass data, communicate over networks, and distribute resources at scale on Kubernetes.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scaling Kubernetes Networking to 1k, 5k, and 100k Nodes

Compare single-cluster and multi-cluster strategies for scaling Cilium-powered Kubernetes networking, with guidance on performance, monitoring, and reliability at massive node counts.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Insights and Gotchas from the Zero-Downtime Migration of 10000+ Cloud Hosted Etcd Key-Value Stores

Operational lessons and pitfalls from automating a zero-downtime migration of more than 10,000 cloud-hosted etcd key-value stores.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Automate Production-Ready Cluster Using Crossplane Compositions and Kyverno

See how Crossplane compositions and Kyverno work together to automate cluster creation, add-on deployment, configuration, and security checks.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Lifting the Hood - Kubernetes Resource Management Evolution

Explores how Kubernetes resource management must evolve with changing hardware, from component interfaces to pluggable policies for performance, power, and utilization.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Streamlining FedRAMP Compliance with CNCF Technologies

How Palantir modernized its infrastructure with Kubernetes and other CNCF technologies to meet FedRAMP technical requirements while reducing compliance support burdens.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Sidecar Containers in Kubernetes - What, How, and Why Now

Learn how Kubernetes 1.28’s built-in sidecar support works, why it was added, and what to consider when using it.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

eBPF and WebAssembly for Lightweight Observability in Kubernetes

Learn how WasmEdge sandboxes deploy and control eBPF applications in Kubernetes, including the plugin mechanism and developer APIs for building eBPF programs.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video