Kubernetes Foundation is a three-day, hands-on course that gives working technology professionals a solid, practical grounding in Kubernetes. Attendees start with the platform’s architecture and basic Pod concepts, then learn to configure applications with ConfigMaps, Secrets, and the Downward API. From there the course moves into Deployments, Services, the Gateway API, network policy, and batch workloads with Jobs and CronJobs. The final day covers stateful workloads, cluster security and RBAC, observability, and package management with Helm.
Labs run throughout, so every topic gets reinforced with real hands-on practice. Attendees write and apply their own YAML manifests while exploring multi-container Pods, InitContainers, and resource limits. They compare Service types like ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer, and work with kube-proxy, IPTables routing, and cluster DNS. Later labs configure RBAC roles and Service Accounts, harden etcd, and set up monitoring with Metrics Server, OpenTelemetry, and Helm chart repositories. By the end, attendees have the skills needed to run Kubernetes in a production environment.
Who Should Attend
Developers, IT and QA Staff, Technical Managers, DevOps and Build personnel
What Attendees Will Learn
Upon completing Kubernetes Foundation, attendees will be able to:
- Explain Kubernetes architecture and use the kubectl command line
- Define and deploy Pods, Deployments, and ReplicaSets
- Configure applications using ConfigMaps, Secrets, and the Downward API
- Expose applications with Kubernetes Services and the Gateway API
- Apply network policy and run Batch workloads with Jobs and CronJobs
- Manage stateful workloads with PVs, PVCs, and StatefulSets
- Secure clusters with RBAC, Service Accounts, and etcd hardening
- Monitor clusters and deploy applications with Helm
Prerequisites
The RX-M “Containers Foundation” course or equivalent knowledge and some experience with Linux.