CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

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

Kubernetes on a Budget: How to Get Pay-per-Use Right

Learn how Intuit assessed and reduced costs across Kubernetes clusters while moving its API gateway to cloud-native infrastructure, including pay-per-use tradeoffs.

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

How NATS Is Designed to Deliver AI Workloads at the Edge

See how NATS supports local AI workloads at the edge and connects distributed nodes with a multi-cloud topology.

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

Under the Hood: Exploring Istio's Lock Contention and Its Impact on Expedia's Compute Platform

An incident investigation traces Expedia outages to lock contention in Istio Pilot and examines the observability changes and workaround used before an upstream fix.

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

The Cloud Native Maturity Model 3.0

An overview of the five stages in the Cloud Native Maturity Model 3.0, its updated CNCF resources, and ways to contribute.

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

SIG Autoscaling Updates and Feature Highlights in Kubernetes

A look at Kubernetes autoscaling projects’ latest features, future plans, and discussions on standardizing user experiences with Karpenter.

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

The Next Frontier: Exploring the Confidentiality of Kubernetes Control Planes

Explores how confidential computing can protect data in use and strengthen Kubernetes control-plane security, especially in multi-tenant clusters.

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

Paint the Picture - Detecting Suspicious Data Patterns in Encrypted Traffic with eBPF and KTLS

Shows how eBPF and kTLS reveal sensitive data patterns in encrypted traffic between Kubernetes workloads.

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

UX Matters - Switching to GAMMA Without Ruining Your Reputation

Explore how Linkerd adopted GAMMA while preserving familiar workflows, feature parity, and backward compatibility across a service-mesh API transition.

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

Keeping Helm Reliable and Usable

How the Helm project balances user priorities, careful change management, security, and testing to keep its ecosystem reliable and usable.

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

Migrating Hybrid Big Data Platforms at Scale to Kubernetes

A case study in moving legacy Hadoop workloads to Kubernetes, with a focus on noisy-workload control and resource management in shared clusters.

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