Ask HN: How to Learn Kubernetes

6 points by royalghost 3 years ago | 5 comments

How was your experience learning Kubernetes at your work? How did you learn the different concepts, architecture, implementation and tools ? Which course, books, blogs, videos etc. helped to ramp up your learning ?

evrflx 3 years ago |

I tried many books and I think as of today the official tutorial is really good. If you try self paced learning I recommend to use at least two books and practice. Chatgpt might help with questions as well. Try to focus ob concepts not to achieve specific goals too fast. It takes some time and practice to get into it. It helps a lot to understand all the things around like dns, http and how tcp works.

(Actually that is how I designed our kubernetes training: building from bottom up. If you are interested feel free to reach out: tk at trion.de )

royalghost 3 years ago | |

Yes, I am going by both breadth and depth wise. For breadth wise, I am trying to understand how different pieces fit into the whole system. Absolutely, for learning the core concepts, I am going through the official doc as well.

Which books do you recommend ? Are there any other courses out there to ramp up learning ?

maxbrydak 3 years ago |

Beat your head against the wall multiple times until it clicks.

IMHO - the best way to learn anything is to just sit and hack away, if you wanna get up quickly - read through the docs, make sure you understand the concepts and then grab k3s (or run k3d locally in docker) and deploy something to it. WordPress is a good start.

Take a look at: roadmap.sh/kubernetes If you wanna go all in: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

Oh, and both: "Kubernetes up and Running" and "Production Kubernetes" are great books.

siilikuin 3 years ago |

I just finished reading Nigel Poulton's _The Kuberbetes Book_ today, which seems like a pretty good book to lock all the concepts into place one at a time.

yuppie_scum 3 years ago |

Once you understand the paradigm that everything is a type of resource, it really starts to click very fast, at least for me.

I’d make sure you have a solid docker understanding then maybe shell out the $15 or whatever for a Udemy course.