What to expect
Run and ship on a cluster you maintain yourself over five hands-on days: kubeadm upgrades, etcd backup and restore, GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux, and progressive delivery, all running on your own kind cluster.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Operations
Run and ship on a cluster you maintain yourself: kubeadm upgrades, etcd backup and restore, GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux, and progressive delivery - all on your own kind cluster.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Level
- Intermediate
- Format
- On-site
- Price
- On request
What to know before
Who it's for
- Platform and DevOps engineers who have completed Kubernetes Fundamentals (or have equivalent experience) and now own cluster maintenance and release pipelines.
- Teams shipping to Kubernetes through manual kubectl apply runs who want a repeatable, GitOps-driven release process instead.
- Each participant works on their own VM with VS Code preinstalled, running a multi-node kind cluster on Docker with Cilium as the CNI - no cloud account needed to attend.
You'll learn to
- Maintain a cluster end to end: kubeadm upgrades, etcd backup and restore, node maintenance, and resource quotas.
- Build a CI pipeline that produces and publishes container images, then deploy them declaratively with ArgoCD or Flux.
- Run progressive delivery (canary, blue-green) and a full release pipeline end to end, with a rollback drill and on-call basics.
Agenda
Day 1
- kubeadm cluster upgrades
- etcd backup and restore
- Node maintenance: cordon, drain, and taint
- Resource quotas and limit ranges, and advanced cluster-level troubleshooting
Day 2
- Building and publishing container images in CI
- Image tagging and versioning strategy
- Running a local registry against kind
Day 3
- GitOps principles: the declarative deployment model
- Setting up ArgoCD or Flux against your kind cluster
- App-of-apps patterns
Day 4
- Progressive delivery: rolling, blue-green, and canary strategies
- Automated rollback triggers
- Helm and Kustomize for environment overlays
Day 5
- The release pipeline end to end: commit, CI, GitOps, cluster
- Rollback drill
- On-call and runbook basics for a GitOps-managed cluster
The MVJ Method
Lots of practical, hands-on teaching. Theory shows up only when you need it to unblock the next exercise.
Mostly hands-on. Most of the session is spent building real labs and real pipelines, not watching slides.
Your own cluster, not a shared sandbox. Every participant runs a real multi-node kind cluster on their own VM, so what gets built in the room is what ships on Monday.
Small enough that everyone drives. Groups of 4-12, so every attendee gets keyboard time.
You keep the runbook. Labs, scripts, and reference material go home with your team as the start of your own documentation, not a one-off slide deck.
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Tell us a bit about your team and we'll get back to you to schedule Kubernetes Operations.
Manuel Vogel-Johnson
Principal Engineer
“The gap between 'it deploys' and 'it deploys reliably at 2am' is process, not tooling. We spend the week building the operational habits - upgrades, backups, rollbacks - not just another ArgoCD demo.”
Kubernetes Operations
Run and ship on a cluster you maintain yourself: kubeadm upgrades, etcd backup and restore, GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux, and progressive delivery - all on your own kind cluster.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Format
- On-site
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- On request
Learning goals
- Maintain a cluster end to end: kubeadm upgrades, etcd backup and restore, node maintenance, and resource quotas.
- Build a CI pipeline that produces and publishes container images, then deploy them declaratively with ArgoCD or Flux.
- Run progressive delivery (canary, blue-green) and a full release pipeline end to end, with a rollback drill and on-call basics.
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