Kubernetes Course – Full Beginners Tutorial (Containerize Your Apps!)

freeCodeCamp.org March 15, 2024

Learn how to use Kubernetes in this complete course. Kubernetes makes it possible to containerize applications and simplifies app deployment to production.

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⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Kubernetes for Beginners Introduction
⌨️ (0:02:40) What is Kubernetes
⌨️ (0:06:46) What is Pod
⌨️ (0:08:22) Kubernetes Cluster and Nodes
⌨️ (0:10:40) Kubernetes Services
⌨️ (0:14:17) What is kubectl
⌨️ (0:17:23) Software required for this course
⌨️ (0:21:49) Installing kubectl
⌨️ (0:25:03) Installing Minikube
⌨️ (0:29:38) Cleating Kubernetes cluster using Minikube
⌨️ (0:33:50) Exploring the Kubernetes node
⌨️ (0:40:36) Creating just single Pod
⌨️ (0:45:57) Exploring Kubernetes Pod
⌨️ (0:52:44) Creating alias for the kubectl command
⌨️ (0:55:17) Creating and exploring Deployment
⌨️ (1:07:00) Connecting to one of the Pods using its IP address
⌨️ (1:09:23) What is Service
⌨️ (1:11:18) Creating and exploring ClusterIP Service
⌨️ (1:16:38) Connecting to the Deployment using ClusterIP Service
⌨️ (1:20:55) Deleting Deployment and Service
⌨️ (1:22:20) Creating Node web application
⌨️ (1:30:05) Dockerizing Node application
⌨️ (1:38:28) Pushing custom image to the Docker Hub
⌨️ (1:40:26) Creating deployment based on the custom Docker image
⌨️ (1:45:49) Scaling custom image deployment
⌨️ (1:49:14) Creating NodePort Service
⌨️ (1:53:51) Creating LoadBalancer Service
⌨️ (1:56:49) Rolling update of the deployment
⌨️ (2:05:30) What happens when one of the pods is deleted
⌨️ (2:06:31) Kubernetes Dashboard
⌨️ (2:10:49) Creating YAML deployment specification file
⌨️ (2:17:04) How to use Kubernetes documentation
⌨️ (2:20:35) Applying YAML deployment file
⌨️ (2:24:13) Creating YAML service specification file
⌨️ (2:27:59) Plan for the creation of the two deployments
⌨️ (2:31:16) Creating another web app with two endpoints
⌨️ (2:35:15) Building custom Docker image for the second web app
⌨️ (2:36:38) Creating YAML specification for the second web app
⌨️ (2:39:02) Creating YAML specification for the NGINX app
⌨️ (2:42:07) Applying specifications for both apps
⌨️ (2:44:09) Verifying connectivity between different deployments
⌨️ (2:47:05) Resolving Service name to IP address
⌨️ (2:49:52) Deleting both applications
⌨️ (2:51:00) Changing Container Runtime from Docker to CRI-O
⌨️ (2:54:49) Deploying apps using CRI-O container runtime
⌨️ (2:56:08) Verifying connectivity between deployments
⌨️ (2:57:11) Wrap-Up