Workshop: Kubernetes best practices and GitOps principles

Managing Kubernetes should be simple, easy, and clear. The Kubernetes toolbox was designed to make well-known DevOps practices and ultimately automation achievable. The four GitOps principles provide the critical guide for Kubernetes to achieve the desired properties.

This practice-oriented workshop will focus on advanced topics from Kubernetes:

  • Health checks, high availability and zero-downtime updates
  • Routing, Load Balancing, and Ingress
  • Persistent storage, configurations, and sensitive data
  • Kubernetes, cluster nodes, and network security

On the other hand, it is about managing Kubernetes using the four GitOps principles:

  • Declarative approach
  • Version
  • Deployment Automation
  • Continuous Delivery

In addition, it is addressed to:

  • Secret Management with SealedSecrets and Vault

Templating with helmet and kustomize

The workshop is aimed at those who are enthusiastic about the technical practices of DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Automation and who have already gained initial experience with container virtualization (docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

Andy Wirtz is a Senior IT Consultant at ATIX AG (Germany) and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). He helps customers build and configure container platforms, deliver cloud-native services, and develop microservice applications. He specializes in the technical practices of DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Automation. He offers basic and in-depth training, workshops, and webinars on Kubernetes and OpenShift.