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Found 24 courses
Introduction to GitOps
FREE
Learn how GitOps could help you deploy to a Kubernetes environment with a simple pull request from git.
Understand the key principles, practices, tools and benefits of using GitOps, helping you build an operational framework for cloud native applications primarily running on Kubernetes.
This will eventually help you set up and automate your continuous delivery pipeline to Kubernetes, leading to increased productivity and efficiency for tech roles.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Those looking to understand the landscape of GitOps and learn how to choose and implement the right tools.
Cost: FREE
Introduction to Kubernetes on Edge with K3s
FREE
There is a growing interest in running software at the edge. This course takes a deep dive into the use cases and applications of Kubernetes at the edge using examples, labs, and a technical overview of the K3s project and the cloud native edge ecosystem.
While students do not need a Kubernetes certification for this course, experience with a Linux operating system and shell scripting will be beneficial. Programming experience is also not strictly required. Learners will need to be able to run Docker on their computer.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Those interested learning more about Kubernetes, as well as in deploying applications or embedded sensors in edge locations
Cost: FREE
Introduction to Cilium
FREE
Cilium is a popular and widely-deployed Container Network Interface (CNI) solution that is now the default across many Kubernetes distributions and cloud provider offerings. Get a practical introduction to using Cilium as the networking plug-in for Kubernetes, including installation, observability with Hubble, securing network connections, and multi-cluster support – all based on eBPF for scalability.
To make the most of this course, students should be familiar with basic Kubernetes concepts, Kubernetes operations and the kubectl tool.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Application developers, systems operators, and security professionals with an interest in learning how to use Cilium to better connect, observe, and secure Kubernetes.
Cost: FREE
Introduction to Protocol Buffers
FREE
Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a fundamental data serialization format that every Data Engineer or API Designer should know about. It is leveraged by many top tech companies such as Google, Netflix, and Uber and enables micro-services to transfer data in an efficient way.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Students or professionals who want to get ready to learn gRPC and/or want to learn about efficient data serialization/deserialization.
Cost: FREE
Introduction to Istio
FREE
This course is a practical introduction to Istio, designed for anyone who wishes to build on their knowledge of Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes to learn how to install and configure a service mesh and to understand the benefits of deploying and running distributed applications in a service mesh environment.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Application developers, systems operators, and security professionals who already have familiarity and experience with Kubernetes and who wish to take their first steps towards learning and understanding Istio.
Cost: FREE
Introduction to Service Mesh with Linkerd
FREE
Learn the basics of service mesh and get hands-on practical experience with Linkerd, the open source, open governance, ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes hosted by CNCF, including transparent mTLS, golden metrics, traffic shifting, and multi-cluster communication.
Before enrolling, students should understand the core Kubernetes resource types and be comfortable reading and writing YAML. In addition, students should know how to work in a Linux terminal environment and run a Kubernetes cluster on their computer or in the cloud. It is also useful to be familiar with building container images and running them in Kubernetes using kubectl.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Site reliability engineers, DevOps professionals, cluster administrators, and developers who want to learn more about service mesh and Linkerd.
Cost: FREE
Introduction to Backstage: Developer Portals Made Easy
FREE
Developers working in cloud native teams face the challenge of shuffling between microservices, external APIs, libraries, and other software components. Developer portals like Backstage can help teams reduce tech fragmentation, knowledge silos, and lack of ownership while promoting creativity and autonomy.
To make the most of this course, you should be familiar with source control systems and repositories and have basic knowledge of GitHub and JavaScript (especially React and Node.js). For learners using Windows, knowing how to install PostgreSQL locally is a plus.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: DevOps engineers and professionals interested in or working in Developer Productivity or Developer Experience teams.
Cost: FREE
WebAssembly Actors: From Cloud to Edge
FREE
Learn about the portability, efficiency, and security of WebAssembly modules and how to leverage a number of open source frameworks to create distributed and seamlessly connected actors that can be deployed in a browser, on a laptop, in the cloud, on a Raspberry Pi, or practically anywhere.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Developers who have built or are building microservices and have experienced a high degree of friction in cloud native application development.
Cost: FREE
Introduction to WebAssembly
FREE
Get a solid foundation on the WebAssembly runtime and its capabilities, and learn how and why WebAssembly has succeeded in bringing new programming languages to the web, when others have failed.
This course is designed to show you what the WebAssembly runtime is, and how it provides a secure, fast and efficient compilation target for a wide range of modern programming languages, allowing them to target the browser.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Web, cloud, and blockchain developers, architects, and CTOs interested in learning about WebAssembly’s strengths and limitations, and its potential applications in blockchain, serverless, edge/IoT, and more.
Cost: FREE
Cloud Native Fuzzing Fundamentals
In this course you will learn the fundamentals of fuzzing, emphasizing identifying reliability and security vulnerabilities by applying fuzzing to real-world software packages. This course is designed for developers interested in securing and testing software and security engineers interested in security automation tools.
By completing this course, you will apply fuzzing fundamentals to software testing, create fuzzers in various languages, and utilize OSS-Fuzz for continuous open source software testing while assessing project fuzzing status.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Cost: $299
Detecting Cloud Runtime Threats with Falco
Explore Falco’s basics, history, design, and role in cloud security. Dive into its architecture, threat detection methods, setup, rule customization, and output management. By the end of this course, you should be able to install and use Falco to secure cloud native applications. You’ll also gain hands-on experience in crafting Falco rules, managing outputs, and configuring Falco to fit your specific needs.
Difficulty: Advanced
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: IT professionals, security analysts, DevOps engineers, and anyone looking to expand their knowledge and skills in cloud native runtime security.
Cost: $299
CI/CD with Tekton
This course will teach you to master Tekton installation, configuration, task automation, pipeline creation, triggers, and extensions. You will learn the Tekton framework and CI/CD fundamentals, enabling you to become proficient in Tekton installation and pipeline creation by building, testing, and deploying code. This course prepares you to manage CI/CD pipelines using Tekton. These skills are valuable for DevOps, CI/CD Engineer, or Software Developer roles in organizations embracing cloud native architectures.
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: DevOps Engineers, CI/CD Engineers, and Software Developers looking to effectively manage (CI/CD) workflows using the Tekton framework
Cost: $99
Introduction to Serverless on Kubernetes
FREE
Learn how to build serverless functions that can run on any cloud, without being restricted by limits on the execution duration, languages available, or the size of your code. This edX course is designed for developers and IT operators interested in exploring new approaches for building software, who prefer being able to set their own limits when it comes to things such as timeouts and choice of programming languages.
The course will give you a complete overview of how a serverless approach works in tandem with a Kubernetes cluster.
Difficulty: Beginner
Length: 4-5 weeks, 2-3 hours/week
Who It’s For: Developers and system administrators who want to get started building serverless functions that run in conjunction with Kubernetes.
Cost: FREE
Container Fundamentals
Containers have invaded the IT world over the last few years, mainly thanks to the growth in Kubernetes adoption. Understanding how they work, how they interact with the network and storage and how to build them is therefore essential.This course will explore container fundamentals and guide you through various container runtimes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Developers, system administrators, architects or managers who want to get started with containers and learn how to containerize applications.
Cost: $299
GitOps: Continuous Delivery on Kubernetes with Flux
What is GitOps? Join us for this course as it will deep dive into GitOps principles and practices. You’ll also learn how to implement them on Kubernetes using Flux, including some integration with CI!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Developers and system administrators who want to be able to start deploying cloud native applications using GitOps practices and Flux.
Cost: $299
Managing Kubernetes Applications with Helm
Helm is an emerging open source technology that enables packaging and running applications on Kubernetes in a simple and efficient way. Helm is considered a package manager for Kubernetes, similar to “apt” or “yum” on various Linux distributions, or “brew” on macOS. Using Helm, you can package, share, and install applications built and designed to run on Kubernetes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: This course is designed for technology professionals who have basic experience with Linux/Unix system administration, as well as some development experience in Go and/or Python.
Cost: $299
培训费: ¥2088 (含税)
Service Mesh Fundamentals
More and more applications today are adopting a microservices-style distributed architecture. As these architectures grow in complexity, new challenges arise. These include security, resilience, and observability of these large distributed systems.
The Service Mesh Fundamentals course introduces service meshes, an emerging technology for addressing these challenges. Designed for DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, and platform engineers adopting microservice architectures, this course will introduce the challenges of distributed systems, strategies for managing these challenges, and the architecture of service meshes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: This course is designed for DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, and platform engineers adopting microservice architectures.
Cost: $299
培训费: ¥2088 (含税)
Cloud Native Logging with Fluentd
With the growth of large scale, distributed systems the challenges of managing logs has become acute. It is increasingly common to have thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of services all emitting data which needs to be attributed, normalized and aggregated i.e. “logged”. This course is designed to introduce individuals with a technical background to the Fluentd log forwarding and aggregation tool for use in Cloud Native Logging. Known as the “unified logging layer”, Fluentd provides fast and efficient log transformation and enrichment, as well as aggregation and forwarding.
In this course you will explore the full range of Fluentd features, from installing Fluentd to running fluentd in a container, and from using Fluentd as a simple log forwarder to using fluentd as a sophisticated log aggregator and processor. Upon completion you will have the skills necessary to deploy Fluentd in a wide range of production settings.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: This course is designed to introduce individuals with a technical background to the Fluentd log forwarding and aggregation tool for use in Cloud Native Logging and provide them with the skills necessary to deploy Fluentd in a wide range of production settings.
Cost: $299
培训费: ¥2088 (含税)
Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus
Prometheus is a monitoring system and time series database that is especially well-suited for monitoring dynamic cloud environments. With a powerful data model and query language as well as integrated alerting and service discovery support, Prometheus allows you to gain better insight into your systems and services and define more precise and meaningful alerts.
This course leads new Prometheus users through many of its major features, best practices, and use cases. Course participants are expected to have basic experience with Linux/Unix system administration, as well as some development experience in Go and/or Python.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: Developers and system administrators who want to learn how to monitor their systems and services effectively with Prometheus.
Cost: $299
培训费: ¥2088 (含税)
Kubernetes Security Essentials
Do you know Kubernetes but need the skills and knowledge to keep your implementation secure? This course covers a broad range of best practices for securing container-based applications and Kubernetes platforms during build, deployment and runtime.
You’ll learn about:
- Overview of cloud security
- Installing clusters
- Securing the kube-apiserver
- Networking
- Workload Considerations
- Issue Detection
- And much more!
This course aligns with the requirements for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced
Length: Online Self-Paced
Who It’s For: This course is ideal for anyone already holding a CKA certification – a prerequisite for CKS – and interested in or responsible for cloud security.
Cost: $299
培训费: ¥2088 (含税)