CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Secrets of Running Etcd at Scale

Learn production practices for running etcd reliably at scale, with lessons from Kubernetes deployments involving thousands of nodes and hundreds of thousands of pods.

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

Longhorn: Cloud-Native Distributed Block Storage for Kubernetes - Introduction and Deep Dive

Explore Longhorn’s evolution as a Kubernetes-native distributed storage system, including its new data engine, object storage volumes, and performance improvements.

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

The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Cloud Native Communities

Examines eight mistaken assumptions about cloud-native communities, including infinite maintainer bandwidth, secure software supply chains, and rare compromise.

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

Where's Your Money Going? The Beginners Guide to Measuring Kubernetes Costs

Learn how Kubernetes metrics and OpenCost can turn cluster usage into trustworthy cost estimates and help teams spot costly changes before they become shock bills.

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

Using Workload Identity Federation to Increase Developer Productivity

Learn how Kubernetes service account token projection and workload identity federation help teams secure access to third-party APIs.

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

Leveraging SPIRE for Production Identity Needs

See how SPIRE-issued identities can be adapted with customized X.509 certificates to meet third-party software authentication requirements.

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

Service Mesh Journey at DoorDash - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

DoorDash’s service mesh adoption story traces how a 2021 outage led to a system handling 5 million requests per second, with lessons from the rollout.

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

Revolutionizing Kubernetes Scalability Testing with KWOK

KWOK’s low resource use makes large Kubernetes scalability tests practical on a laptop and in CI pipelines.

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

What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize and How You Can Help

Kubernetes SIG CLI maintainers explain how kubectl and Kustomize enhancements are built, what is changing, and how community members can contribute.

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

Rapidly Scaling for Breaking News with Karpenter and KEDA

See how The New York Times handles brief, unpredictable breaking-news surges by rapidly scaling Kubernetes clusters while accounting for ingress bottlenecks.

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

Achieving Real-Time Generative AI During Gameplay for Games on Kubernetes

Examines how to meet sub-second generative AI inference needs during gameplay by deploying inference alongside distributed game servers on Kubernetes.

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

CRI-O's Graduation Celebration - Container Runtime Interface Overview and Future Plans

Explore CRI-O’s architecture, recent features, signature verification, and the path the Kubernetes container runtime took to CNCF graduation.

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

gRPC Tapping Filter with Hardware Acceleration in Service Mesh

An Envoy transport socket tapping design uses a streaming gRPC sink and hardware-accelerated memory copies to monitor traffic without bottlenecking XDS updates.

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

Kubernetes and Cloud Native at the SKA Observatory - Exploring the Radio Universe

How SKA Observatory moved cluster deployment and management to a ClusterAPI-based strategy with minimal downtime for 25 teams.

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

Middleware for Quantum - Enabling Advanced Quantum Computing Workflows

Middleware for Quantum distributes hybrid computing jobs across CPUs, GPUs, and QPUs through Kubernetes.

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