CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Navigating the Waters: Balancing Open Source Activities in Corporate Environments

Discover strategies for balancing corporate goals with open source activities, including planning, user journey mapping, and effective communication with leadership about open source initiatives.

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

Asimov's Zeroth Law of Robotics: Observability for AI

Explore the challenges of AI observability, from monitoring model drift to managing costs, with practical demos using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and OpenLit to ensure AI systems remain transparent and ethical.

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

Dashboards and Dragons: Crafting SLOs to Tame the AI Platform Chaos

Discover how to tame multi-cluster Kubernetes complexity using SLIs, SLOs, and observability dashboards. Learn practical strategies for maintaining platform reliability for AI workloads at scale, with real-world examples from Bloomberg's experience.

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

Leveraging the Little Known Features of Artifact Hub

Discover hidden features of Artifact Hub for enhanced cloud-native artifact management, from release notifications to rich metadata display, and learn how to leverage these capabilities for your projects.

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

Rook: Introduction and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage

Explore Rook, a cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes that integrates Ceph to provide block, file system, and object storage solutions for production environments in this comprehensive introduction.

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

Flux Ecosystem Evolution

Explore the latest developments in Flux CD ecosystem, including Flux Operator, Headlamp's new plugin, and Flagger's features with Gateway API for progressive delivery in Kubernetes applications.

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

gRPC: 5 Years Later, Is It Still Worth It?

Explore the journey of implementing gRPC for backend and frontend communication, examining challenges, successes, and whether this protocol choice remains valuable five years later.

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

Wasm I Right or Wasm I Wrong? A Review of the Wasm Ecosystem

Explore WebAssembly's evolution from browser origins to cloud-native applications, understanding its portability, security, and efficiency. Learn how CNCF projects leverage Wasm and discover the component model's strengths for your own projects.

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

Don't Write Controllers Like Charlie Don't Does: Avoiding Common Kubernetes Controller Mistakes

Discover common pitfalls in Kubernetes controller implementation and learn how to avoid mistakes like excessive API server strain, missed updates, and scaling issues when working with Custom Resource Definitions.

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

The GPUs on the Bus Go 'Round and 'Round - Large-Scale GPU Deployment Management

Explore NVIDIA's large-scale GPU deployment challenges and solutions, including techniques for device failure detection, health maintenance, and remediation strategies for 60,000+ GPUs in production environments.

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

Learning Kubernetes Through the Lens of Metrics

Explore Kubernetes metrics beyond basic monitoring—discover how they reveal cluster features, pod scheduling, log space usage, and more. Learn to leverage different metric types for deeper insights and add custom metrics to components.

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

A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code

Explore Kubernetes Policy as Code implementation with experts from Microsoft, Google, Nirmata, and Fairwinds. Learn to build robust security and compliance solutions using ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, MutatingAdmissionPolicy, and CNCF policy engines.

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

Exploring Multi-Tenant Kubernetes APIs and Controllers With Kcp

Explore multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms with kcp, learning to build APIs and controllers that scale beyond traditional namespace limitations for true SaaS experiences across distributed environments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Deep Dive to AI Agent Observability

Explore how OpenTelemetry can be leveraged for AI Agent observability, addressing challenges in monitoring multi-agent systems, tracing inference workflows, and integrating with observability tools for production-grade AI systems on Kubernetes.

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

Orchestrating AI Models in Kubernetes: Deploying Ollama as a Native Container Runtime

Discover how to simplify AI model deployment in Kubernetes with a custom container runtime using Ollama as the serving backend, making complex workflows more manageable and user-friendly.

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