Conclusion
Over the course of the workshop you (hopefully) learned a lot!
You set up your own, local cluster, consisting of multiple nodes and a working connection to/from your local machine. You also deployed your first workloads onto said cluster, going from pod to deployment and even learning about scaling and updating them!
You also learned about networking, going from fundamentals on the pod network level on to establishing connectivity from clients outside of the cluster, either via port, load balancer IP, or Ingress.
If you want to dive deeper into the Kubernetes universe now, there are a few places to go from here, depending on what/how you want to learn:
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the Kubernetes documentation is a great place to continue. You can find all sorts of content there, from tutorials to introductions to deep dives revolving around certain parts of the technology
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the CNCF Slack is the community for Kubernetes, its different use-cases and related projects. You can find mentors and like-minded people there, ask questions, and continue exploring.
I also plan on extending this workshop over time - from Secrets and ConfigMaps onwards to PersistentVolumes and cluster security. Whenever I will finish a new section, there will be a new release on GitHub, so now's your chance to star the repository if you're interested in following along (You can find the repository link in the top right corner of the page)!
If there's a certain topic you want to see rather sooner than later, feel free to open an issue! Of course, you can do the same if you found a typo, wrong information (hopefully not), or had problems with parts of the workshop.
Created: September 21, 2023