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A Portuguese-language study repo from the LINUXtips crew (badtuxx) bundling their 'Descomplicando' course material — Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Git, Prometheus, eBPF — as day-by-day markdown lessons with accompanying YAML manifests. It's aimed at Brazilian developers prepping for container/Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD-style), not at anyone looking for a tool or library.
The Kubernetes track is genuinely structured as a progression — pods, then deployments/replicasets with liveness/readiness/startup probes, then storage (PV/PVC/StorageClass with NFS), then services (ClusterIP/NodePort/LoadBalancer/headless) and StatefulSets — which mirrors how the concepts actually build on each other. The YAML examples are runnable as-is, not pseudo-config. Coverage is broad across the container ecosystem (Git, Helm, ArgoCD, Prometheus, eBPF) rather than Kubernetes alone.
It's Portuguese-only, which caps the usable audience significantly. There's no code here, just markdown and static manifests, so it has none of the usual maintenance signals that matter for actual software (no tests, no CI, nothing that can break or regress) — but also no mechanism to keep the Kubernetes API usage current as manifests age. Last push mid-2024 means anything referencing version-specific behavior (probe defaults, deprecated API versions) could already be stale. This is tied to a specific YouTube/Twitch course, so without the accompanying video content some of the day-by-day READMEs likely assume context that isn't in the repo itself.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →