Some Places to Start Learning About Kubernetes

Funnily enough, everywhere but in a book

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Wait, Why Should I? Isn’t Serverless the Best?

Myself and others have written about why Serverless isn’t always the right option, but knowing about a technology is an important step in not selecting it.

If you’re a “serverless or nothing” person you might have some major blindspots (for example, GPU based workloads don’t work in serverless 😬). Suffice it to say that Kubernetes has cemented itself as the main, non-serverless, container orchestration mechanism (sorry Docker Swarm and OpenShift), so it’ll be a good one to know!

So where can you learn about it?

Your Job! (or Free Time!)

This is probably the most concrete piece of advice. The way that I got half decent with Kubernetes was getting on projects where I got to work with it. All of the reading I link below isn’t worth much if you don’t go out and apply it. If you’re self employed, considering trying to set things up in Kubernetes on your own machine using minikube or kubeadm, or try something out in the cloud for some $$$. Learning by doing -> 💯

Medium

I’ve read many a Kubernetes article on Medium, and I’ve written some as well! Hearing…