Kubernetes Career Path

Go from your first pod to running resilient, self-healing workloads in production. Learn deployments, services, scaling, and the operational patterns that keep clusters healthy.

9 projects3 levels

Level 1 — Beginner

Beginner

Your First Pod & Deployment

Run and scale a container with a Deployment.

Beginner2 hours

KubernetesPodsDeployments

Services & Networking

Expose pods internally and externally with Services.

Beginner2 hours

ServicesNetworkingDNS

ConfigMaps & Secrets

Inject configuration and secrets into your workloads.

Beginner2 hours

ConfigMapsSecretsEnv

Level 2 — Intermediate

Intermediate

Ingress & TLS

Route HTTP traffic and terminate TLS with an Ingress.

Intermediate3 hours

IngressTLScert-manager

Persistent Storage

Attach durable volumes with PersistentVolumeClaims.

Intermediate2–3 hours

PVPVCStorageClass

Autoscaling Workloads

Scale automatically with the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

Intermediate3 hours

HPAMetricsResources

Level 3 — Advanced

Advanced

Helm Packaging

Package and template your app as a reusable Helm chart.

Advanced3 hours

HelmChartsTemplating

Observability Stack

Metrics, logs, and dashboards for cluster workloads.

Advanced3–4 hours

PrometheusGrafanaLoki

GitOps Production Cluster

Declarative, Git-driven deployments to production.

Advanced4 hours

GitOpsArgo CDKustomize