Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Platform Engineering Bootcamp Certificate
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Bootcamp Mastery Certificate B31
Primary spine: TechWorld with Nana Kubernetes full course, reinforced with current CNCF bridges for Helm, Argo CD and autoscaling plus a production observability course. Move from manifests and networking to state, GitOps, security, monitoring, scaling and failure recovery.
Benchmark: TechWorld with Nana and the CNCF publish the cited Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, security and autoscaling videos publicly; the observability course is also publicly available on YouTube. Zuyini curates these free learning resources and adds an independent build-and-proof rubric; this is not a Kubernetes, CNCF or provider-issued certification.
Core Video Sequence
01 — Complete Kubernetes hands-on foundation
02 — Cluster architecture + core components
03 — kubectl, manifests + declarative workloads
04 — Services, ingress + application exposure
05 — Persistent storage + stateful workloads
06 — Current packaging bridge: Helm 4 direction
07 — GitOps delivery with Argo CD
08 — Prometheus, Grafana + Kubernetes observability
09 — Workload + network security principles
10 — Autoscaling: HPA, VPA, cluster + Karpenter/KEDA
Build-Along Checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1: Create a local or managed cluster and deploy a multi-service application using namespaces, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets and resource requests/limits.
- Checkpoint 2: Expose traffic through Ingress/TLS, add readiness/liveness/startup probes and prove safe rolling updates plus rollback from a deliberately bad release.
- Checkpoint 3: Add persistent storage and a stateful component; document PVC/StorageClass behavior, backup assumptions and recovery after pod/node disruption.
- Checkpoint 4: Package the application with Helm and manage environment-specific values without duplicating manifests; show upgrade, rollback and configuration-drift evidence.
- Checkpoint 5: Implement GitOps with Argo CD; prove desired-vs-live reconciliation, controlled promotion and recovery from an out-of-band manual change.
- Checkpoint 6: Instrument cluster/app metrics with Prometheus/Grafana, define SLO signals, add autoscaling and security controls, then diagnose an injected resource or networking incident.
7-Day Independent Capstone
- Day 1: Define application topology, namespaces, trust boundaries, SLOs, capacity assumptions and cluster acceptance tests; provision the target cluster.
- Day 2: Containerize and deploy stateless services with declarative manifests, probes, resource requests/limits, ConfigMaps/Secrets and repeatable kubectl
- Day 3: Add Services, Ingress/TLS, NetworkPolicy/RBAC boundaries and one stateful workload with persistent storage and documented recovery expectations.
- Day 4: Convert deployment to Helm with reusable values and versioned releases; demonstrate upgrade and rollback with a deliberately faulty release.
- Day 5: Add Argo CD GitOps, pull-based reconciliation and environment promotion; prove drift detection and restoration after an unauthorized manual change.
- Day 6: Add Prometheus/Grafana dashboards, alerts and autoscaling; inject CPU/resource/network or pod failure and diagnose from cluster and application
- Day 7: Publish repo, manifests/charts, architecture diagram, GitOps evidence, security notes, SLO dashboard, incident timeline, recovery proof and operations
Kubernetes - Deploy, Reconcile, Observe & Recover
Operate a production-style Kubernetes application rather than stopping at kubectl syntax. Completion requires declarative workloads, ingress and state, Helm packaging, GitOps reconciliation, observability, autoscaling, access/network boundaries and failure-recovery evidence.
Proof Rubric — What Must Be Shown
- WORKLOADS: Declarative manifests + probes/resources
- NETWORKING: Services/Ingress/TLS + segmentation evidence
- STATE: Persistent storage + recovery behavior
- HELM: Reusable chart + upgrade/rollback proof
- GITOPS: Argo reconciliation + drift recovery
- OBSERVABILITY: Prometheus/Grafana + SLO/alert evidence
- SCALE: Autoscaling behavior + capacity rationale
- SECURITY: RBAC/policy boundaries + incident recovery