CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Running an API Gateway on Istio - Pitfalls and Learnings

Lessons from scaling Intuit’s API gateway on Istio, including sidecar autoscaling, cross-zone costs, bin packing, canary releases, and regional failover.

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

Ambient Operations: Automating Istio Orchestration with Argo

See how Argo automates declarative Istio Ambient upgrades, progressive rollouts, and rollbacks when an outage is detected.

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

Unraveling Istio - A Tale of Scale, Challenges and Triumphs at DevRev

DevRev’s Istio journey traces scaling problems, connection losses, and the practices the team developed to make its service mesh work.

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

Kiali Beyond the Graph - Troubleshooting Istio

See how Kiali’s console goes beyond traffic graphs to help troubleshoot and isolate problems in an Istio mesh.

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

Bridging Trust Between Multi-Cluster Meshes

Learn how SPIFFE/SPIRE workload identities and Istio establish trust and secure communication across Kubernetes clusters.

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

Challenges and Best Practices for Upgrading Istio in Production Environments

Learn how to upgrade Istio in production by checking service compatibility, planning phased rollouts, and testing to reduce risk and preserve service continuity.

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

Architecting Ambient Mesh for Scale

How Istio’s ambient mesh is architected to scale beyond a million endpoints, from sidecar removal to redesigned controllers and configuration protocols.

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

Getting Started with Ambient Mesh - An Interactive Tutorial

Tour Istio’s sidecar-free Ambient Mesh through hands-on exercises in onboarding, authorization, observability, fault injection, and traffic shifting.

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

Enhanced Security for Multi-Tenant Architectures: Key Components and Best Practices

A practical guide to applying Zero Trust principles to reduce lateral attack risks in multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters.

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

Multi-Tenancy Architecture Lessons Learned

Compare three multi-tenancy architectures and weigh their tenant-specific tradeoffs, hidden costs, configuration needs, and long-term operational impact.

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

Orchestrating Multi-Tenancy Kubernetes Environments with Flux

Learn how Flux can coordinate software delivery across Kubernetes tenants while addressing the security and operational challenges of multi-tenancy.

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

What We Learned Designing and Securing a Multi-Tenant Developer Platform

A look at designing a cloud-based developer platform that securely isolates engineering teams while providing shared infrastructure and paved paths for applications.

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

Embracing Multi-Tenancy While Scaling MLOps

Learn how multi-tenant MLOps can isolate teams while sharing resources, using workflow isolation, quotas, access controls, and shared artifacts.

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

Running Kubernetes at the Wellsite - Lessons from Distributed Edge Deployments

A wellsite case study shows how Kubernetes supports automation, equipment control, and monitoring across distributed, constrained edge locations.

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

Orchestrating Machine Learning on Edge Devices Using Akri and WebAssembly

See how Akri device discovery and WebAssembly runtimes can support scalable machine learning and sensor processing at the edge.

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