Containers & Kubernetes — Course Decks
A hands-on, project-based introduction to containers and Kubernetes. One continuous storyline: the Pinboard app grows from a single docker run to a production-shaped deployment on a local kind cluster.
Containers & Docker: the mental model
Namespaces, cgroups, OCI and the container lifecycle.
→Building images
Dockerfiles, BuildKit cache, multi-stage & publishing.
→Running containers well
Config & signals, volumes, networks and resource limits.
→Docker Compose
The Compose Spec, healthchecks, watch — and its limits.
→Kubernetes: architecture, kubectl, Pods
Control plane, the object model, kubectl and Pods on kind.
→Workloads: Deployments, rollouts and probes
Labels, ReplicaSets, rolling updates, probes & rollback.
→Networking: Services, DNS, Ingress
Service types, cluster DNS, EndpointSlices and Ingress.
→Configuration & storage
ConfigMaps, Secrets, volumes, PV/PVC and StatefulSets.
→Operating Kubernetes
Troubleshooting method, metrics, HPA and security basics.
→Capstone: ship Pinboard like production
Production checklist, Helm & Kustomize, then the capstone.