CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Service Mesh Journey at DoorDash - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

DoorDash’s service mesh adoption story traces how a 2021 outage led to a system handling 5 million requests per second, with lessons from the rollout.

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

Revolutionizing Kubernetes Scalability Testing with KWOK

KWOK’s low resource use makes large Kubernetes scalability tests practical on a laptop and in CI pipelines.

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

What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize and How You Can Help

Kubernetes SIG CLI maintainers explain how kubectl and Kustomize enhancements are built, what is changing, and how community members can contribute.

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

Rapidly Scaling for Breaking News with Karpenter and KEDA

See how The New York Times handles brief, unpredictable breaking-news surges by rapidly scaling Kubernetes clusters while accounting for ingress bottlenecks.

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

Achieving Real-Time Generative AI During Gameplay for Games on Kubernetes

Examines how to meet sub-second generative AI inference needs during gameplay by deploying inference alongside distributed game servers on Kubernetes.

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

CRI-O's Graduation Celebration - Container Runtime Interface Overview and Future Plans

Explore CRI-O’s architecture, recent features, signature verification, and the path the Kubernetes container runtime took to CNCF graduation.

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

gRPC Tapping Filter with Hardware Acceleration in Service Mesh

An Envoy transport socket tapping design uses a streaming gRPC sink and hardware-accelerated memory copies to monitor traffic without bottlenecking XDS updates.

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

Kubernetes and Cloud Native at the SKA Observatory - Exploring the Radio Universe

How SKA Observatory moved cluster deployment and management to a ClusterAPI-based strategy with minimal downtime for 25 teams.

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

Middleware for Quantum - Enabling Advanced Quantum Computing Workflows

Middleware for Quantum distributes hybrid computing jobs across CPUs, GPUs, and QPUs through Kubernetes.

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

What's New in gRPC - Tips and Tricks for Microservices Applications

Explore what’s new in gRPC and get tips for building microservices applications with it.

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

Efficient Edge Computing: Unleashing the Potential of AI/ML with Lightweight Kubernetes

Explore how lightweight Kubernetes can run AI and machine-learning models efficiently on edge devices, balancing power use, model size, and inference speed.

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

The Journey Along the Way to Data Locality on Cloud for AI/ML

Examines how local and distributed caching on Kubernetes can balance cloud cost savings with performance for AI training workloads.

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

What's New in Containerd 2.0

A readiness guide to containerd 2.0, covering upgrade changes, the 1.6 LTS line, and features that enable new uses of the project.

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

Kubernetes DoS Protection at Google Scale

A deep dive into protecting Kubernetes control planes from denial-of-service at Google scale, including configurable limits, attack scenarios, and ongoing project developments.

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

Reliable RPCs Over Hybrid Clouds and the End-to-End Argument

A case study in hardening Layer 7 RPCs to preserve end-to-end reliability when hybrid cloud networks experience failures such as sustained packet loss.

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