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Kubernetes

Orchestrating containers in production. Pods, services, and deployments.

Why learn Kubernetes?

  • The standard for running containers at scale.

  • Every major cloud has a managed offering (EKS, GKE, AKS).

  • A huge resume bump for backend and SRE roles.

  • Built for self-healing, rolling updates, and zero-downtime deploys.

What you can build with Kubernetes

Production workloads at scale Multi-region deployments Internal developer platforms Running stateful services like databases

Kubernetes tutorials

3 articles

Hand-written tutorials, ordered as a recommended learning path.

  1. 01 ConfigMaps & Secrets How to externalize configuration and credentials in Kubernetes — ConfigMap YAML, Secret YAML, mounting as env vars vs files, and patterns for reloading config without rebuilding images.
  2. 02 Ingress Basics How Ingress, IngressClass, and Ingress controllers route external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to your Kubernetes Services — with host and path rules, TLS termination, and notes on ingress-nginx vs Traefik.
  3. 03 Helm Basics Learn Helm fundamentals: helm install, charts, values.yaml, templating, releases, and when to choose Helm over plain Kubernetes YAML manifests.