CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Hybrid-Confidential-Cloud - Democratize Secure AI With GPUs and Confidential Containers

Explore how confidential containers make GPU workloads portable and protected across on-premises, private cloud, and public infrastructure.

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

Beyond the Operators - The Full Strimzi Ecosystem for Kafka on Kubernetes

A practical tour of Strimzi’s supporting components for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, from REST access and authentication to observability and IoT integration.

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

Reimagining Insurance Infrastructure - CopperPoint's Cloud Native Blueprint

CopperPoint’s insurer transformation shows how a cloud-native platform on AWS supported modernization, observability, and more than 100 enterprise integrations.

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

Performance Tuning Java Apps for Kubernetes - From Startup Time to Container Efficiency

Explore ways to speed Java startup and improve container efficiency with Jib, GraalVM native images, Class Data Sharing, and CRaC.

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

Platform Engineering in Action - Test-Driven Development Applied to Developer Platforms

A live demonstration of applying test-driven development to a Kubernetes developer platform, with Chainsaw testing from development through CI.

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

Don't Panic! A Beginner's Guide to K8s Debugging

A practical guide to tracing Kubernetes failures through resource relationships, logs, events, health checks, and service-mesh observability.

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

Real-World Strategies for Cutting Kubernetes Costs - Why One Size Doesn't Fit All

A practical guide to choosing Kubernetes cost-cutting tactics, matching fixes for over-provisioning, idle resources, scaling, and governance to each team's needs.

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

An Introduction to Capture The Flag

An introduction to participating in Capture the Flag competitions, with tips for solving challenges and a practice scenario.

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

Untangling CSI - Powering Persistent Storage for KubeVirt

Compares CSI architectures and storage options to help choose a resilient backend for virtual machine workloads on Kubernetes with KubeVirt.

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

No Kubectl, No Problem - The Future With Conversational Kubernetes

A Headlamp assistant turns plain-English requests into kubectl commands, using Kubernetes UI context to carry out cluster workflows conversationally.

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

Agent-Driven MCP for AI Workloads on Kubernetes

An intelligent agent turns a plain-language model deployment command into GPU planning, Kubernetes provisioning, deployment, and metric-driven scaling.

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

Scaling Generative AI - Building Production-Ready LLM Applications

Explore how Java can support scalable, production-ready LLM applications, with attention to inference performance, resource management, and infrastructure integration.

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

Crossplane - The Cloud Native Framework for Platform Engineering

A walkthrough of Crossplane v2’s improvements and how they shape the project’s platform engineering roadmap.

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

OpenTelemetry Logs Driving a Major Shift - Events, Richer Data, and Smarter Semantics

OpenTelemetry logs are becoming a first-class signal through events, richer semantic conventions, and structured attributes that improve correlation across observability signals.

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

SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive

A look inside Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation’s past and ongoing work, with concrete projects to help participants find ways to contribute.

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