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kelseyhightower/intro-to-kubernetes-workshop
Intro to Kubernetes Workshop
A hands-on workshop by Kelsey Hightower (one of the people who built Kubernetes) that walks you through standing up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch on GCE — no managed control plane, no shortcuts. It covers the full stack: CoreOS provisioning, PKI setup, kubelet/kube-proxy configuration, and basic app lifecycle. Aimed at people who want to understand what Kubernetes actually does rather than just click through GKE.
The from-scratch approach forces you to understand what every component does — you configure etcd, generate certs, and wire up the kubelet yourself, which no managed cluster tutorial teaches. Coming from Kelsey Hightower means the conceptual framing is accurate and opinionated rather than documentation-regurgitation. The lab structure is well-sequenced: infrastructure before PKI, PKI before workloads. Rolling updates as a first-class lab topic is the right call — that's where Kubernetes earns its keep.
Frozen at Kubernetes 1.0.4 from roughly 2015 — replication controllers are deprecated, the Web UI lab points to a dead add-on, and CoreOS itself no longer exists as a product. Running any of these labs verbatim today will fail at multiple steps. The slides live on go-talks.appspot.com, which is a dead service. There is no update path or maintained fork — so you're studying archaeology, not Kubernetes as it exists now.