Kubernetes Advanced

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What you'll build

You extend the intermediate kind cluster into a production-shaped setup: package manifests with Helm, install an Ingress controller and cert-manager for TLS, deploy a StatefulSet with persistent storage, implement GitOps with ArgoCD, add monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, set up structured logging, and apply RBAC security best practices.

Prerequisites

• Complete the Intermediate tier (production-shape Deployment on kind)
• kind, kubectl, helm installed
• A local kind cluster (kind create cluster)

The ladder

1. 01 Why Helm — from raw YAML to charts
2. 02 Package with Helm — create, template, install a chart
3. 03 Ingress controller — nginx-ingress on kind
4. 04 cert-manager TLS — automatic TLS certificates
5. 05 StatefulSet and PVC — stateful workloads with persistent volumes
6. 06 GitOps with ArgoCD — declarative cluster state from Git
7. 07 Prometheus and Grafana — metrics and visualization
8. 08 Logging with Loki — structured log aggregation
9. 09 RBAC and security — roles, bindings, Pod Security Standards
10. 10 Production hardening — PodDisruptionBudget, topology spread, network policies

Start → 01 Why Helm