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Kubernetes
Orchestrating containers in production. Pods, services, and deployments.
Why learn Kubernetes?
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The standard for running containers at scale.
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Every major cloud has a managed offering (EKS, GKE, AKS).
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A huge resume bump for backend and SRE roles.
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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 articlesHand-written tutorials, ordered as a recommended learning path.
- 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.
- 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.
- 03 Helm Basics Learn Helm fundamentals: helm install, charts, values.yaml, templating, releases, and when to choose Helm over plain Kubernetes YAML manifests.