Build A Platform Engineering Environment On Kubernetes

k8s For Platforms

What you'll learn

• Everything there is to know about Platform Engineering
• Kubernetes for Platform Engineering
• Capabilities like ArgoCD and the cloud
• Programming for Platform Engineering

Requirements

Students should have a background in infrastructure/systems and programming

Description

Kubernetes is one of the primary ways you can implement Platform Engineering.

As you build a platform for engineers/developers who have requested to use it, you’ll have a few different options to do so. It’ll require several pieces. Just to list a few out:

• An API
• A CLI
• A method of deploying resources
• A method to deploy clusters
• Management and deployment of containers
• IaC tools like Terraform
• Deploying and managing VMs

Although that seems like a lot, it’s the common “stack” for what’s used in many environments today.

With that list alone, you’re looking at roughly 6-8 different tools and an entirely different platform just to run VMs if you also have containers to deploy. That’s multiple tools, a full virtualized environment (ESXi, Hyper-V, etc.), and a container solution.

Using Kubernetes, you can have all methods in one place.

With tools/methods like Operators, Kubevirt, Cluster API, and Crossplane, Kubernetes can be THEE underlying platform of choice.

Think about it - you can do everything from creating VM's to deploying resources outside of Kubernetes and managing all of it in a declarative fashion.

In this 3-part course, you will learn about:

1. How to build a Kubernetes cluster as an underlying platform.
2. How to implement platform capabilities.
3. How to interact with the platform

Who this course is for:

Mid-level to senior-level engineers