Kubernetes Courses and Certifications

Managing Data at Scale - Best Practices and Evolution of SIG-Apps

A year-in-review of SIG Apps’ Kubernetes workload API changes, including support for high-volume Jobs and features still needing community input.

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

Package Management for Your Cluster, Reimagined

A look at declarative installation previews and policy approvals in OLM, alongside Java Operator SDK improvements such as the expectation pattern.

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

Home Lab to the Moon and Back - Running CozyStack in Home Labs

Explore the energy and reliability tradeoffs of running CozyStack in a home lab, including shifting workloads to cloud or ARM64 nodes.

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

DevConf

What Did My Cluster Just Do? Event Intelligence with LightRAG

Turn Kubernetes events into durable memory that can reveal recurring failures and answer what changed in a cluster.

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

Career Certificate

Cloud DevOps Engineer

471 ratings at Udacity

Deploy AWS EC2, S3, RDS, and IAM services, define infrastructure with CloudFormation, run microservices on Docker and Kubernetes, and build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.

• Udacity
• 53 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

TikTok's Edge Symphony - Scaling Beyond Boundaries with Multi-Cluster Controllers

A shift from per-cluster operators to centralized multi-cluster controllers frees more edge compute for applications while reducing platform maintenance.

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

SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive

A deep dive into Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation’s ongoing work and how software engineers and operators can contribute to consistent instrumentation.

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

Trimaran: Load-Aware Scheduling for Power Efficiency and Performance Stability

Trimaran places pods using measured node utilization to balance power efficiency, congestion, and the risk of over-commitment.

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

SIG Windows Retrospective and Windows Image Building Deep Dive

A maintainer-track retrospective on SIG-Windows leads into a deep dive on the challenges and current methods for building Windows container images.

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

Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production

954 ratings at Coursera

Secure GKE clusters with Kubernetes RBAC, IAM, Workload Identity and Pod Security Standards, monitor and log with Google Cloud Observability, connect Cloud SQL, and build CI/CD pipelines.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Nginx

How to Improve Visibility in Kubernetes with Prometheus, Grafana, and NGINX

1 rating

See how NGINX metrics flow into Prometheus and Grafana dashboards to diagnose Kubernetes microservice performance and visibility issues.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Kunal Kushwaha

Your Path to Non-Code Contributions in Kubernetes

Explore practical ways to contribute to Kubernetes without writing code, from bug scrubs and documentation to release shadowing and community work.

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

Devoxx

Secrets of Performance Tuning Java on Kubernetes

Learn how JVM behavior, CPU throttling, and garbage collection shape Java application performance and cloud costs on Kubernetes.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Inner Development Loop with Java on Kubernetes

Build a productive inner development loop for a Java application on Kubernetes, from local feedback and buildpacks to pull-request environments and a production golden path.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Kubernetes, Your Next Java App Server

See how Kubernetes can provide JVM applications with the runtime infrastructure traditionally associated with Java application servers.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk