Kustomize: Native Kubernetes Configuration Management
Use Kustomize for declarative Kubernetes configuration management without Helm's templating—overlays, patches, and environment-specific customization.
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Multi-Cloud Strategy: Portability and Tradeoffs
Design for multi-cloud environments—avoiding vendor lock-in, managing multiple cloud providers, and understanding the real tradeoffs of multi-cloud architectures.
Network Security: VPC, Firewall Rules, and Service Mesh mTLS
Design network security for cloud-native applications using VPCs, network policies, and mutual TLS for service-to-service encryption.
The Observability Engineering Mindset: Beyond Monitoring
Transition from traditional monitoring to full observability: structured logs, metrics, traces, and the cultural practices that make observability teams successful.
OCI Artifacts: Distributing Container Images and Helm Charts
Package and distribute container images, Helm charts, and other artifacts using the OCI (Open Container Initiative) specification for portable artifact management.
Policy as Code: Guardrails and Compliance with OPA and Sentinel
Enforce infrastructure compliance and governance automatically using Policy as Code with Open Policy Agent (OPA), HashiCorp Sentinel, or AWS Policy.
Pulumi: Infrastructure as Actual Code
Use Pulumi to define infrastructure using real programming languages—TypeScript, Python, Go, C#—enabling loops, conditionals, and full IDE support for IaC.
Terraform: Declarative Infrastructure Provisioning
Learn Terraform from the ground up—state management, providers, modules, and production-ready patterns for managing cloud infrastructure as code.
Docker Compose: Orchestrating Multi-Container Applications
Define and run multi-container Docker applications using Docker Compose. From local development environments to complex microservice topologies.
Multi-Stage Builds: Minimal Production Docker Images
Learn how multi-stage builds dramatically reduce image sizes by separating build-time and runtime dependencies, resulting in faster deployments and smaller attack surfaces.