CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

How To Gateway With Ingress - 140 Days InGate

Discover the journey of building a Gateway API implementation based on NGINX, exploring features, challenges, and future developments in this cloud native computing project.

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

Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Sign and Verify All the Things

Discover how to protect your clusters from supply chain threats using digital signing and policy enforcement with CNCF projects like ORAS, Notary, Flux, and Kyverno to ensure trusted, tamper-proof deployments.

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

Was Leslie Lamport Right? - Exploring Distributed Systems Theories

Explore Leslie Lamport's distributed systems theories through practical experiments, learning how his concepts influence modern cloud native systems and how implementing them could save millions in operational costs.

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

Museum of Weird Bugs: Our Favorites From 8 Years of Service Mesh Debugging

Explore fascinating service mesh debugging stories from Linkerd's 8-year history, featuring strange bugs, unique manifestations, and the sometimes complex journey to finding solutions.

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

The Bricks That Make Us – How the LEGO Group Avoids 50 Mediocre Kubernetes Implementations

Discover how The LEGO Group balances developer autonomy with governance in their container platform, enabling 100+ product teams to run applications globally while maintaining effective communication between teams.

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

Building a 5* Kubernetes Hotel

Explore Fidelity International's journey to create a "Kubernetes Hotel" platform that abstracts infrastructure complexity, allowing developers to focus on business logic while addressing public cloud adoption challenges.

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

Beyond the Limits: Scaling Kubernetes Controllers Horizontally

Discover how to overcome scalability challenges in Kubernetes controllers through horizontal scaling. Learn about sharding techniques borrowed from distributed databases to partition controller workloads across multiple instances for improved performance.

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

Dancing With the Pods: Live Migration of a Database Fleet While Serving Millions of Queries

Explore the challenges and solutions of migrating thousands of ClickHouse database services to a new orchestration system without downtime, featuring StatefulSets, custom controllers, and synchronization techniques.

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

Journey at the New York Times: Is Sidecar-Less Service Mesh Disappearing Into Infrastructure?

Explore The New York Times' journey with Istio ambient mode, examining the shift to sidecar-less service mesh architecture for improved simplicity and efficiency across multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.

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

A Practical Guide to Benchmarking AI and GPU Workloads in Kubernetes

Gain insights into benchmarking AI and GPU workloads in Kubernetes with practical demonstrations of tools like NVIDIA Triton, fmperf, MLPerf, and GPU stress testing for optimizing performance and resource efficiency.

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

Set Your Developers Free: Fleet Management at Spotify

Discover how Spotify manages over 10,000 software components, automating migrations and security patches to free developers from toil. Learn how they patched Log4J across most software in just 6 hours.

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

From Metal To Apps: LinkedIn's Kubernetes-based Compute Platform

Discover how LinkedIn built a Kubernetes-based compute platform that manages thousands of microservices, stateful applications, and GPU workloads, bridging bare-metal infrastructure with diverse application needs at scale.

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

How To Rename Metrics Without Impacting Somebody's Observability

Discover strategies for renaming metrics in Prometheus and OpenTelemetry without disrupting observability systems, including conventions and frameworks for stable metric versioning.

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

KEDA: Unlocking Advanced Event-Driven Scaling for Kubernetes

Discover how KEDA enhances Kubernetes with advanced event-driven scaling capabilities, including OpenTelemetry integration, admission webhooks, security improvements, expanded scalers, and HTTP scaling for maximizing resource efficiency.

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

A Huge Cluster or Multi-Clusters? Identifying the Bottleneck

Explore the debate between massive Kubernetes clusters and multi-cluster approaches, examining bottlenecks, scaling solutions, and management tools to help you make informed architectural decisions for complex deployments.

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