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Production-ready Kubernetes guides from cluster basics to GitOps, service mesh and advanced security. Real YAML manifests and kubectl commands throughout.

Workloads Networking Helm GitOps Security Monitoring
🗺 Learning Path
1Pods
2Deployments
3Services & Networking
4Helm
5RBAC & Security
6GitOps with ArgoCD
7Monitoring

Core Workloads

Autoscaling & Performance

Autoscaling

Kubernetes VPA: Vertical Pod Autoscaler Guide

Automatically right-size pod CPU and memory requests with VPA. Covers Off/Initial/Auto modes, resource policies, and combining VPA with HPA.

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Autoscaling

KEDA: Event-Driven Autoscaling Guide

Scale workloads on Kafka lag, SQS depth, Prometheus metrics and 60+ other event sources. Covers ScaledObject, ScaledJob, and scale-to-zero.

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Deployments

Rolling vs Blue-Green vs Canary Deployments

Compare deployment strategies with real YAML examples. Covers rolling update tuning, blue-green switching, canary with Argo Rollouts, and choosing the right approach.

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Monitoring & Multi-Cluster

Monitoring

Thanos: Long-Term Prometheus Metrics Storage

Add unlimited retention and global query view to Prometheus. Covers Sidecar, Store Gateway, Querier, Compactor and object storage configuration.

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Multi-Cluster

Multi-Cluster Management with Rancher

Manage dozens of clusters from one dashboard. Covers Rancher installation, importing clusters, RBAC projects, Fleet GitOps, and monitoring integration.

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Debugging

Kubernetes Debugging: kubectl Techniques

Systematic debugging for CrashLoopBackOff, Pending pods, OOMKill, network failures, and stuck deployments — with ready-to-run kubectl commands.

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Security & Identity

Security

ImagePullPolicy and Private Registry Setup

Master imagePullPolicy options and configure imagePullSecrets for ECR, GCR, and Docker Hub. Covers ECR token rotation and pull-through caches.

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Security

Service Accounts and Workload Identity

Create least-privilege ServiceAccounts, use IRSA on EKS and Workload Identity on GKE to access cloud APIs without storing credentials as Secrets.

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Security

Admission Controllers: Webhooks and Policies

Build mutating and validating webhooks, enforce policies with OPA Gatekeeper and Kyverno. Covers TLS, failure modes, and production HA requirements.

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Networking Deep Dives

Networking

Headless Services and StatefulSet DNS

Learn how clusterIP:None works, how StatefulSet pods get stable pod-specific DNS names, and real Kafka and Cassandra headless service examples.

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Observability & GitOps Tools

Loki: Log Aggregation

Set up Grafana Loki for Kubernetes log aggregation. Covers Promtail, LogQL queries, and Grafana dashboards.

Jaeger: Distributed Tracing

Deploy Jaeger for distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry. Covers sampling strategies and Grafana Tempo integration.

Sealed Secrets

Safely store Kubernetes secrets in Git with Bitnami Sealed Secrets. Covers kubeseal, key rotation, and ArgoCD integration.

External DNS

Automatically manage DNS records for Kubernetes Services and Ingresses using Route53, Cloudflare, and more.

MetalLB: Bare Metal Load Balancer

Give bare metal Kubernetes clusters working LoadBalancer Services using Layer 2 mode or BGP routing.