CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Supercharge Your Canary Deployments With Argo Rollouts Step Plugins

Discover how to extend Argo Rollouts with custom Canary Step plugins for enhanced progressive delivery workflows and deployment control in Kubernetes environments.

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

Intelligent Topology for AI Power - Network-Aware Scheduling Optimization With Volcano HyperNode

Explore network topology abstraction and scheduling optimization for AI clusters using Volcano and Kueue to tackle complex workload deployment challenges.

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

Ulysses' Odyssey Through Platform Engineering

Discover how platform engineering challenges mirror Ulysses' epic journey, with practical strategies to overcome cultural resistance, integration complexities, and technical debt.

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

Who Wants To Secure Clusters - Interactive Kubernetes Security Best Practices

Discover Kubernetes security best practices through an interactive game show format, exploring CNCF tools and actionable recommendations for securing cloud-native clusters.

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

GitOps and the Manifest Dilemma - Helm, Kustomize, Crossplane, Kro, and Beyond

Explore the evolving landscape of Kubernetes manifest tools like Helm, Kustomize, and Crossplane, comparing their GitOps integration and paradigms for scalable deployment management.

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

Final Boss Fights - What Zynga Monitors When Game Teams Perform World Wide Launches and How We Prepare

Discover how Zynga and Amazon collaborate to monitor and scale Kubernetes applications for global mobile game launches, ensuring readiness for massive player traffic.

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

Help! My LLM Is a Resource Hog - How We Tamed Inference With Kubernetes and Open Source Muscle

Discover how to optimize LLM inference using Kubernetes and open-source CNCF tools like KServe, Kubeflow, Volcano, and KEDA to reduce costs and improve performance at scale.

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

Mapping the Next Phase - Updating the Cloud Native Maturity Model for 2025, The AI Era and Beyond

Explore the evolved CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model for 2025, covering AI integration, security, platform engineering, and developer experience in this interactive session.

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

GitOps Without Variables - Separating Configuration Data from Update Code

Discover a revolutionary GitOps approach that eliminates variables and templates, enabling rapid production fixes while maintaining desired state synchronization through plain YAML.

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

GitOps for AI Agents - Building Reliable AI Pipelines With Argo

Discover how Argo Workflows and Argo CD enable GitOps-driven AI agent pipelines with state management, retries, and safe rollbacks for production-grade agentic infrastructure.

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

Spark on Kubernetes - A Practical Guide

Discover how to deploy Apache Spark on Kubernetes with practical guidance on operators, shuffle services, schedulers, and optimization strategies from Airbnb's real-world experience.

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

Supercharging Backstage Scaffolder for Workflows

Discover how to integrate Backstage with workflow engines like Temporal, Argo, and Airflow to create complex, resilient automation with approvals, error handling, and versioning capabilities.

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

Project Harbor Maintainers Update - Where Are We Heading?

Discover Harbor's evolution from v2.12 to 2.13, featuring enhanced robot accounts, OIDC improvements, CloudNativeAI integration, and security upgrades for container registries.

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

Fix First, Investigate Later - When an eBPF Rollout Brought Down Our Network

Discover how a mysterious eBPF monitoring tool deployment caused network packet loss and learn the emergency fix strategies used to restore production systems quickly.

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

It's 2025 - Why Are You OK With an Insecure Network?

Explore why network security remains neglected in 2025 and discover actionable strategies for securing cloud applications using service meshes and operational simplicity principles.

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