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Containers, images, registries and orchestration concepts
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Platform Engineering Academy · Enterprise Knowledge Graph
Kubernetes Platform Knowledge Graph
Relate containers, clusters, networking, storage, identity, policy, delivery pipelines and observability across a production Kubernetes platform.
Objective: Build a connected mental model of Kubernetes components and the enterprise services required to operate them safely.
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Foundations and prerequisites
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Pods, deployments, services, namespaces and scheduling
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YAML, kubectl and basic Linux or networking knowledge
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Technology relationships and dependencies
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Ingress, services and network policy govern application traffic
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Secrets, workload identity and RBAC control access
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Persistent volumes, CSI drivers and backup support stateful workloads
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Architecture, delivery and operations
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Connect GitOps or CI/CD to controlled deployment workflows
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Apply admission policy, image assurance and runtime security
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Operate upgrades, scaling, capacity, telemetry and incident response
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Validation and learning evidence
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Trace a request from ingress to pod, dependency and datastore
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Test node loss, scaling, policy enforcement and rollback
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Capture service ownership, SLOs and recovery procedures
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