CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Decentralized Routing for Sharded Applications on Service Mesh

Intuit demonstrates how WASM extends Envoy to route requests dynamically to application shards from client-side service mesh proxies.

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

A Cloud Native Swiss Knife - Essential Tools for Cloud Deployments

Ricardo Rocha shares cloud native tools and features he wishes he had known from the start, and those that later improved developers’ and operators’ daily work.

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

Efficient Storage Handling for Sandboxed Runtimes in Kubernetes

Explores presenting persistent volumes directly to sandboxed runtimes to improve storage I/O efficiency beyond host bind mounts.

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

SIG Cloud Provider Update - Removing Cloud-Specific Code from Kubernetes Core

A status report on moving Kubernetes cloud-provider integrations out of the main repository, covering migration progress and remaining rollout challenges.

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

Fast Image Pulls Using IPFS and Opportunistic Caching

Combining eStargz, nerdctl-registry, and in-cluster IPFS caching cuts Kubernetes image pull times without constraining container images or adding work for deployers.

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

Writing Reliable, Scalable, Fault-Oblivious Code on Kubernetes - Best Practices and Abstractions

Practical patterns and abstractions for writing distributed application code that stays resilient and scales on Kubernetes.

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

Cgroupv2 - Coming Soon to Kubernetes Clusters

A look at how cgroupv2 changes Kubernetes node resource isolation and enables features such as memory throttling, disk latency targets, and pressure monitoring.

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

Adopting ARM64 Architecture at Airbnb

Follow Airbnb’s multi-year move to ARM64, from evaluating the architecture to supporting multi-architecture developer environments, CI, and production workloads.

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

One API to Rule Them All - Gateway API and Service Meshes

Explores whether Kubernetes Gateway API can unify service mesh APIs and reduce fragmentation for users and tooling providers.

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

cert-manager - Past, Present and Future

Maintainers trace cert-manager’s path into CNCF incubation and explain why Kubernetes administrators use it to manage X.509 certificates.

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

Lessons From Scheduling 20 Million Windows Containers a Month

A production case study in scaling Windows containers on Kubernetes, sharing the scheduling failures, node diagnostics, and monitoring patterns that emerged.

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

Unsung Hero of the Cloud Native Revolution: Container Linux Then and Now

Trace how minimal, container-optimized Linux distributions shaped cloud native systems and changed the experience of running Kubernetes compared with traditional enterprise Linux.

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

DoorDash's Journey from StatsD to Prometheus - Scaling to 10 Million Metrics per Second

DoorDash’s migration from StatsD to Prometheus reveals the engineering challenges of handling metrics at a scale of 10 million per second.

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

Content Addressable CRDs - Type Uniqueness Across Kubernetes Clusters

Explores content-addressable storage for Kubernetes type definitions to make Custom Resource Definitions identifiable across clusters.

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

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in Kubernetes - Best Practices and Approaches

Compare SBOM approaches for Kubernetes use cases, with a demonstration of how Syft can embed an SBOM in a Paketo Buildpacks application image.

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