CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

The Falco Playground - WebAssembly and Runtime Security

A browser-based Falco Playground brings runtime threat detection to WebAssembly by porting Falco’s production C++ engine into a backend-less web app.

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

A Love Letter to Isolation - Harnessing Isolation for System Resilience and Security

A case for using isolation—from process boundaries to WebAssembly components—to strengthen system resilience and security.

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

Modernizing Authorization for Cloud Native Applications Using OpenFGA

See how OpenFGA combines relationship- and attribute-based access control to centralize authorization for cloud-native applications.

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

Build Progressive Delivery and Safety Into Apps with Feature Flags

Feature flags and OpenFeature enable progressive delivery, observable runtime adjustments, and safer application releases without added mesh or load-balancer complexity.

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

Crafting Resilient and Scalable Systems with Orchestration and Choreography Patterns on Kubernetes

Explore how orchestration and choreography patterns shape event-driven systems, with demonstrations using Kafka, Camel K, and Argo Workflows on Kubernetes.

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

Navigating the Shift to Remote Developer Environments - A Year of Insights and Challenges

A year of lessons from adopting remote developer environments, including usability friction, developer feedback, and efforts to standardize environments with cloud-native tools.

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

Shaping Tomorrow's Technology: Navigating Cloud-Native, Serverless, and Polyglot Programming

Explore how cloud-native and serverless architectures, architectural patterns, and polyglot programming can help modernize applications and improve developer productivity.

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

Dapr Workflows - Simplifying Business Process Orchestration

See how Dapr Workflows map business requirements to code and coordinate long-running processes through scheduling, parallel execution, and event triggers.

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

Wiring Cloud Native Applications for Local Development

Explore how Dapr, OpenFeature, and Testcontainers bring consistent distributed-application workflows into local development.

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

Lessons Learned Migrating an Existing Product to a Multi-Tenant Cloud Native Environment

A team shares lessons from moving an existing product to a cloud native environment, including design tradeoffs and mistakes made along the way.

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

Preview Environments: Enabling Inclusive Software Development

Preview environments let product managers, designers, and other stakeholders review features and give feedback while they are still being developed.

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

Run Your CI in Code, Not YAML

See how writing CI logic in a programming language can make pipelines easier to read, test, debug, and move across CI systems.

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

AI-Ready Microservice Architecture for Deploying and Evaluating AI Models

A live camera demo shows how an event-driven feedback loop can evaluate and deploy image-recognition models in production.

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

SOPS: Secure Management of Configuration Files - Episode 29

Learn how SOPS encrypts and manages secrets in configuration files across YAML, JSON, ENV, INI, and binary formats.

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

Running LLMs in the Cloud - Approaches and Best Practices

Compares Python, native runtimes, and WebAssembly for deploying open-source LLMs in cloud-native environments, highlighting trade-offs in portability, integration, and resource efficiency.

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