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Kubernetes and AKS

Practical Kubernetes and AKS learning for engineers who want command-driven, production-minded guidance.

Who it is for: Cloud engineers, platform engineers, developers, and operators who want hands-on guidance.

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Prerequisites

  • A test tenant or subscription
  • Basic CLI and portal familiarity
  • Permission to create and inspect the target resources

Recommended sequence

  1. Deploy a containerized app to AKS
  2. Probes and autoscaling
  3. Ingress and networking
  4. Workload identity and RBAC
  5. kubectl troubleshooting

Estimated path

About 8 hours of practical reading and mini-labs.

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