learning Kubernetes—from fundamentals to production-ready skills.
- 🐣 K3s – Lightweight, local dev
- 🧪 Minikube – Dev sandbox
- 🔧 Kubeadm – Manual production
- 🤖 Kubespray – Automated production (recommended)
- 🧱 Containerd – Container runtime
- 📦 Pods
- 🥇 PriorityClass
- 📄 Static Pod
- 📈 HPA
- ⚙️ KEDA
- ❤️ Readiness & Liveness
- 🚀 Deployment
- 👷♂️ DaemonSet
- 🧬 ReplicaSet
- 🧱 StatefulSet
- 🕒 Job
- 🔁 CronJob
- 🌉 ClusterIP
- 🔌 NodePort
- 🌍 LoadBalancer
- ⚖️ MetalLB
- 🔗 ExternalName
- 🧰 Advanced Networking
- 🌐 Ingress
- 🚪 Gateway
- 👻 Headless Service
- 🗺 ConfigMaps
- 🔐 Secrets
- ⏱ Init Container Pattern
- 🧾 Sidecar Pattern
- 🧠 Adapter Pattern
- 📦 Work Queue Pattern
- 📤 Ambassador Pattern
- 🛡 Kyverno
- 🧱 Network Policies
- 🧩 PodSecurity Standards
- 🔐 RBAC & Service Accounts
- 🧭 Istio, Linkerd, Consul, etc.
- 🔄 Traffic splitting, mTLS, telemetry
- 📡 Prometheus
- 👀 Kwatch
- 📜 Audit Logs
- 🪵 Centralized Logging (EFK/ELK)
- ♻️ Velero
- 🧰 Helm
- 🌄 Rancher
- 📁 All Configs
- 📦 Deployments
- 👷 DaemonSets
- 🌐 Services
- 🧰 Extras
- 💰 Cost Optimization (KubeCost, resource tuning)
- 🔄 Kubernetes Upgrades (Best practices)
- 🧬 Kustomize – Customize YAML configs
- 🧯 Disaster Simulation (Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos)
- ☁️ Hybrid/Multicloud Deployments
- ⚙️ CRDs & Operators – Extend Kubernetes
🧠 Tip: Start with the Prerequisites → Installation → Workloads, then explore Services, Policies, and Observability. Don’t skip hands-on practice!