CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Level Up Your Argo CD Experience - Unleash the Power of Custom Extensions

See how Argo CD UI extensions reveal application event history and resource metrics, and learn how to develop extensions of your own.

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

Balancing AI's Productivity Boost with Ethical Considerations in Cloud-Native

See how K8sGPT applies remote and local AI to cloud-native observability and issue triage, alongside questions about safe and inclusive use.

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

Verifying Kubernetes Clusters with Kivi - Don't Lose Your Sleep Over It

See how Kivi uses model checking to detect unintended interactions among Kubernetes controllers and simulate the effects of operational changes.

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

Simplifying Backstage - Breaking the Code Barrier

Backstage maintainers explain efforts to simplify plugin adoption by removing code based integration, alongside updates on the project and its community.

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

Identity-Based Segmentation: An Emerging Standard for Zero Trust from NIST

Explains how identity-aware proxies and policy can apply NIST’s emerging Zero Trust model to cloud-to-on-premises application communication.

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

Mastering LLM Delivery in Private Clouds: A Journey to Seamless Deployments with Kubernetes and OCI

A case study on using OCI artifacts and Kubernetes to speed up private LLM delivery while reducing duplicate storage and governance overhead.

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

Flavors of Certificates in Service Mesh - The Whys and Hows

Explains why service meshes use different certificate types and how to apply them across security and operational scenarios.

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

What's New in Operator Framework

An introduction to Java Operator SDK’s higher-level abstractions for reducing boilerplate in Kubernetes resource management workflows.

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

Optimizing Developer Experience with Telepresence for Microservices

A case study on using a hybrid local-and-cluster development environment to speed up microservice development and debugging.

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

Kubernetes Authentication and Authorization at Robinhood - Lessons from Reductions, Migrations, and Designing Automation

Robinhood’s Kubernetes access-control work explores reducing excess permissions, migrating identity providers with minimal user friction, and designing sustainable automation.

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

Cert-Manager Explained in 5 Levels of Difficulty

Project maintainers trace cert-manager from requesting TLS certificates through Kubernetes resources to building custom issuers and plugins.

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

Securing Identity and Authorization in Microservices

Explains how nested Transaction Tokens carry user identity and context through microservice call chains to help defend against impersonation and tampering.

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

Keptn Lifecycle Toolkit Updates and Deep Dive

Keptn Lifecycle Toolkit links observability with GitOps workflows and automates deployment checks and artifact promotion across stages.

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

Rook: Introduction and Deep Dive with Ceph Storage - Lecture 1

See how Rook configures Ceph to provide block, shared file system, and object storage for production data on Kubernetes.

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

Improving MTTR by 80% Through GenAI-Powered Operational Data Platform - Intuit Case Study

A real-time operational data platform combines open-source LLMs and automated vector embeddings to surface context-rich insights and shorten detection and recovery time.

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