Kubernetes: Orchestrate Containers at Scale

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container orchestration platform originally developed by Google. It automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes handles load balancing, service discovery, rolling updates, self-healing, and secret management for applications running in containers.

Kubernetes is the industry standard for container orchestration, used by virtually every major technology company. Our books cover from K8s basics to advanced cluster management.

• Industry Standard: De facto platform for container orchestration
• Cloud Native: Available as managed service on all major clouds (EKS, AKS, GKE)
• Scalability: Automatically scale applications to any size
• Self-Healing: Automatic container restart and replacement
• Highest Salaries: K8s skills command top DevOps compensation

• DevOps Engineers: Orchestrate production deployments
• Cloud Engineers: Manage cloud-native applications
• Platform Engineers: Build developer platforms
• SREs: Ensure application reliability at scale

• Kubernetes architecture and components
• Pods, Deployments, and Services
• ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Persistent storage and volumes
• Ingress and load balancing
• Helm charts
• RBAC and security
• Monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana

1. Prerequisites: Docker and Linux fundamentals
2. Basics: Pods, Deployments, Services, kubectl
3. Configuration: ConfigMaps, Secrets, resource limits
4. Storage: PV, PVC, StorageClasses
5. Networking: Ingress, network policies, service mesh
6. Advanced: Helm, operators, RBAC, monitoring

• Kubernetes Administrator: €60,000 – €95,000/year
• Platform Engineer: €65,000 – €110,000/year
• Cloud Native Engineer: €70,000 – €115,000/year
• SRE with K8s: €75,000 – €125,000/year