Selected Kubernetes Resources

Learning Kubernetes

• Resources for Getting Started with Kubernetes
• Unofficial ‘CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator’ Exam Curriculum 1.9 Self-Assessment
• Kubernetes Production Patterns and Anti-Patterns
• Use More Kubernetes Labels!
• YAML for Docker Compose and Kubernetes Config Files
• Finding YAML Examples and Docs For Kubernetes Config Files
• KubeCon Europe 2018 Takeaways

Using Docker

• 6 Docker Basics You Should Completely Grasp When Getting Started
• Docker ARG, ENV and .env - a Complete Guide
• What’s Wrong With The Docker :latest Tag?
• Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)

Must-Know on Web App Architecture

• The Twelve-Factor App

Structuring Your Codebase

• Trunk Based Development

Deployment Pipelines

• Slides 11 to 17 of my talk at the Berlin Kubernetes Meetup, see the links and references at the bottom for great resources by topic
• I’m Choosing A New CI/CD Tool, What Now?

Kubernetes In The Wild

• Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably (2017)
• Monzo’s Kubernetes Outage Postmortem
• Five Months of Kubernetes (2016)
• Kubernetes at GitHub (2017)
• Pain(less) NGINX Ingress
• $15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean (2016) be sure to check out the followup (2017) for perspective

Local Development Environments

• The Problem With Your Dockerized Django Development Workflow
• Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Before Using Vagrant

Strategic Thinking

• WTF is Strategy?

Great Conferences

A great way to learn what’s working for others in the industry

• QCon - for example, the Gilt CTO on testing in production
• KubeCon - YouTube videos of the talks 2017, 2018