CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

What Actually Makes Software Cloud Native

A short explanation of what makes software cloud native.

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

Introducing the BACK Stack - Cloud Native Computing

Explore the innovative BACK Stack, a cutting-edge cloud native technology solution for modern application development and deployment.

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

Securing the Boot Process in Cloud Native Environments

A talk focused on securing the boot process.

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

Securing Your Cluster with Cilium Network Policies

Learn how Cilium network policies can secure a cluster.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Generating Network Policies - The Power of Automation

A short talk on using automation to generate network policies.

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

Supercharging Kubernetes Development with Telepresence

See how Telepresence enables local development against remote Kubernetes clusters and supports faster development cycles.

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

A Deep Dive Into Advanced TLS for gRPC Services

Explore practical ways to extend gRPC services’ TLS security through post-handshake verification, custom trust and certificate behavior, and revocation settings.

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

Subsetting in gRPC - Implementation at Datadog

A practical account of Datadog’s attempts to add subsetting to gRPC, including ways to reduce imbalance and use smart load balancing to manage overhead and reliability.

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

Powering Cisco ThousandEyes High-Performant Data Streams with gRPC and OpenTelemetry

See how gRPC supports fast, reliable data streams from test agents worldwide in a shared environment with changing test configurations.

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

Building a New gRPC Library in Swift

See how Swift’s concurrency model and compile-time data race checking shape a new gRPC library with expressive APIs for clients and servers.

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

gRPC Performance and Testing - A Maintainer Perspective

A maintainer’s perspective on keeping gRPC libraries performant and reliable, including their testing infrastructure and the reasoning behind performance decisions.

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

Enabling Distributed Transactions Across Microservices Using gRPC

The talk explores transactionality between microservice calls as a way to combine monolithic simplicity with independent, scalable services.

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

Managing Protocol Buffers at Scale

Explore approaches to managing Protocol Buffers across repositories and build systems as APIs evolve at scale.

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

Rethinking Data Flow in gRPC-Go - Maximizing Memory Efficiency

A technical talk on rethinking data flow in gRPC-Go to maximize memory.

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

Building SpiceDB: A gRPC-First Database

A look at why SpiceDB chose gRPC as its primary query interface, and the API, client, tooling, and code optimizations that followed.

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