CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

A Project Maintainers Guide to TAG Security

A guide to using TAG Security’s resources and assessments to strengthen a CNCF project’s security posture and navigate incubation or graduation reviews.

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

Securing Every Bit at Uber - Transparent Encryption and Authorization Implementation

Uber’s shift to transparently encrypting, authenticating, and authorizing billions of service connections shows how Envoy helped establish a consistent security baseline across diverse applications.

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

Open Source Tools to Empower Ethical and Robust AI Systems

An ontology maps open-source tools for probing AI model behavior, blocking attacks and data leaks, and assessing fairness and robustness.

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

Automate Maintainer Tasks With GitHub Actions

Learn how GitHub Actions can automate routine maintainer tasks, and how to avoid common problems when building and updating them.

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

Tests Are What You Want, What You Really Really Want

Project maintainers compare testing strategies and lessons to spark new ideas for testing their own projects.

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

Comms and Social Media - Why Does a Project Need It

A practical guide to building reliable project communications, from choosing audiences and channels to social media policies and critical updates.

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

From Data To Action: Resources for Building Sustainable Graduated Projects

Learn how open source guides and templates can help diagnose risks and proactively improve the long-term sustainability of graduated projects.

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

Kubernetes Cross-Zone/Region Simplified: Harnessing Bacalhau for Efficient Distributed Compute

See how Bacalhau and Kubernetes bring machine learning compute to distributed data, reducing transfer costs while supporting compliance and reliability.

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

Teaching Kubernetes To Over 1000 Learners: Key Lessons and Insights

Two Kubernetes trainers share how they balance technical depth, conceptual clarity, and hands-on practice for learners from individuals to enterprise teams.

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

Redesigning Kubelet Probes

Examines security flaws in Kubernetes health probes and proposes architectural changes to address SSRF vulnerabilities and NetworkPolicy complications.

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

Scaling the Sound: Fleet Management at Spotify

Spotify’s fleet-first shift uses declarative infrastructure and fleet-wide refactoring to simplify management at scale.

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

Implementing Unified Observability: IDP on Backstage with OpenTelemetry

Instrument a Backstage internal developer platform with OpenTelemetry metrics and send them to a collector for visualization.

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

Pains and Gains: Lessons From Orchestrating Volumes for Remote Storage in Cloud Native AI Scenarios

Fluid tackles the resource overhead, instability, and live data-source limitations developers encounter when orchestrating remote storage for AI workloads on Kubernetes.

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

Envoy Proxy: Evolved for Serving LLMs

How Envoy’s model-aware routing and dataplane security features adapt a service proxy for production LLM inference.

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

Customize Your Own OpenTelemetry Collector: An Introduction To OCB

Learn how the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder creates custom Collector distributions with selected or self-written components.

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