k8s4se

Notes on learning Kubernetes from a software engineer background

Topics

• helm, the package manager
• service discovery
• internal image registry
• configMaps, also mounted as volumes
• secrets: default k8s
• secrets: with Vault: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/platform/k8s/helm
• kustomize: why, how
• golang: service
• golang: k8s API
• elk stack, fluentd
• prometheus for metrics and alerts
• dashboards with grafana

Getting started

minikube start --mount --mount-string=$PWD/volumes:/volumes