Austin DevOps meetup - August 2020 - Kubernetes Workshop
Channel: DevOps Austin
Date: 2020-08-11

Getting started with Kubernetes is daunting. The sheer number of concepts to wrap your head around produces a steep learning curve that leaves even the most seasoned DevOp unsure he or she has accomplished the task of setting up a secure and performant cluster.

Paul and JJ are going to walk us through the use of a cluster an lead us through the first 90 minutes of a workshop. They will then leave the cluster up for 24 hours for those who would like to continue the workshop as a self study.

VMware graciously provided the workshop environment for over 50 attendees. This workshop environment will include all tooling (k8s cluster, kubectl, etc). As long as you can fire up a web browser, you can do the workshop. Otherwise you can follow along using your own k8s cluster ( minikube or kind should be fine).

The workshop is loosely based of https://container.training with modifications to make it even simpler for you to follow along.

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Paul Czarkowski has been a long time member of the Austin DevOps community and a constant contributor throughout our, now, 8 years of existence. He is currently at home traveling the world virtually spreading the joy of Kubernetes for VMware.

JJ Asghar is awesome. You can verify this by emailing awesome@ibm.com and seeing who responds! JJ was with Chef software for many years spreading the good OpenStack word and building the amazing community of Chef. Today he is working at IBM to help companies understand Kubernetes and its ecosystem from the iron to the applications it schedules.