Kubernetes for the busy developer
The Kubernetes hype train has reached full velocity and many organisations are now adopting the technology. The Kubernetes ecosystem can be very operator focused and it can be a challenge for developers to distill the information that is relevant for their job. There are a large number of available tools aimed at solving a broad set of problems but it can be daunting choosing which to invest in. This tutorial aims to provide developers with a thorough grounding on Kubernetes concepts, suggest best practices and get hands-on with some of the essential tooling.
Why this tutorial
After working with a PaaS where the developer has just one single command to deploy the applications: cf push, heroku deploy or gcloud app deploy.
They abstract from a huge amount of complexity.
The experience coming to kubernetes is far from that.
There are many tools for each phase of the lifecycle increasing the learning curve.
What this tutorial is not about
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How to operate or deploy a k8s cluster.
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K8s architecture will be treated as a black box and only the necessary will be described.