from Hacker News

Kubernetes Academy, a free product-agnostic education platform

by frostmatthew on 8/28/19, 11:56 AM with 66 comments

• by shyneeup on 8/28/19, 1:37 PM

  the hype around k8s is unreal..... But should everyone even learn k8s? A lot of the core features of k8s and container orchestration is getting abstracted away at a rapid pace with more things being built on top of k8s. I see this at my current company where we have a ton of ops people who have only ever used vmware....with cloud migration and container focused workflows being the standard now they are fearing like they are left behind. So I see a lot of them learning to code, trying to learn k8s, trying to become more devops with automation. Its quite a steep learning curve.

  But by the time they catch up to this technology I have a feeling it will become less important to administer k8s directly.

• by 0x445442 on 8/28/19, 1:37 PM

  Right out of the chute the Containers 101 video assumes a huge amount of contextual knowledge by the viewer, an existing in-depth knowledge of docker.

  If the course is "101" they should, at the very least, mention this upfront and direct the viewer to suitable resources so the viewer can level set.

• by newscracker on 8/28/19, 7:00 PM

  To the site designer:

  Please do not abuse radio buttons to pretend to be radio buttons in one place (only one selection allowed in a group) and checkboxes (multiple selections allowed in a group) in another place right below. Your assessment page [1] needs better UX on this.

  It would also be good to state that the courses are all free in the content area visible in the viewport when the page loads. There's a "Sign up for free" button way below, but seeing that there's no "Pricing" link anywhere, I wasn't sure if all the courses are free or if courses in the future would become paid. Clarity on this would also help.

  [1]: https://kubernetes.academy/assessment

• by emptysongglass on 8/28/19, 3:58 PM

  I wish more orgs would move over to orchestrating fleets of NixOS machines with NixOps. I can't overstate the benefits of truly immutable deployments. "Be this, machine, and be nothing else."

  Feels like DevOps championed the lowest common denominator. I have to deal with containers flipping out all the time because the distros running inside these containers were never intended to be what we demand them to be with orchestration.

• by bastichelaar on 8/28/19, 2:22 PM

  I like the hands-on tutorials of Instruqt: https://instruqt.com/public/topics/getting-started-with-kube.... They also got quite a few on Knative.

  Disclaimer: I worked for Instruqt and created some of these tutorials.

• by sixhobbits on 8/28/19, 3:07 PM

  The title implies that this is an education _platform_ - I was expecting something like Edx.

  I also don't understand the "product-agnostic" part. Isn't k8s a product?

  This looks like it's simply free k8s related course content.

• by pfd1986 on 8/28/19, 3:27 PM

  Is it bad that the best part of the tutorial for me was to discover fzf? https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fzf-a-command-line-fuzzy-f...

• by streetcat1 on 8/28/19, 2:11 PM

  Happy to see vmware going all in on kubernetes.

  In this regards, I just want to mention dominik tornow, which did an excellent work trying to formalise the kubernetes internals.

  https://medium.com/@dominik.tornow

• by elliottcarlson on 8/28/19, 2:15 PM

  https://www.katacoda.com/ is also an awesome resource - I've often recommended it for people wanting to learn and play around with Kubernetes with a low barrier to entry.

• by navd on 8/28/19, 1:12 PM

  Looks like this is all setup to get you to ultimately take some exam called the CKA

• by gatherhunterer on 8/28/19, 5:23 PM

  My only complaints are that the audio is not normalized across the videos and the viewing experience is negatively affected by sudden highs and lows in the volume. The cookie banner is also tickling my OCD as it pops up every time I change pages.

  I would prefer that this content be made available in a written format as videos are not great for communicating this non-visual information (however most people are more comfortable watching than they are reading). A of the content of these videos with the diagrams included would be perfect.

• by superkuh on 8/28/19, 2:47 PM

  Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects when your personal project is to learn how to use Kubernetes. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

• by shaunxcode on 8/28/19, 2:06 PM

  I wish this was a literal cybernetics education platform.

• by nindalf on 8/29/19, 10:03 AM

  Heads up - CSS is messed up on https://kubernetes.academy/assessment/results. There were 4 results but I could only see 2 of them.

• by rajesh-s on 8/28/19, 2:03 PM

  I am eager to learn about containers and the progress around it. Are there any other resources that cover this well?

• by leowoo91 on 8/28/19, 3:36 PM

  Product agnostic? K8s is a product tho.

• by wiradikusuma on 8/29/19, 1:45 PM

  I can't play the videos: player.vimeo.com's server IP address could not be found.

• by mistrial9 on 8/28/19, 3:47 PM

  free training materials, and no guild structure.. who is the winner here?

• by RocketSyntax on 8/28/19, 4:12 PM

  Does it cover Helm?