Learn DevOps: Advanced Kubernetes Usage (Udemy.com)
Covering Authentication, Authorization, Logging, Helm, Deploying with Spinnaker, Prometheus, Scheduling and more
Created by: Edward Viaene
Last updated August 2018
What you will learn
- Use enterprise features within kubernetes
- Set up kubernetes authentication/authorization
- Do automated deploys on kubernetes using Spinnaker
- Use centralized logging on Kubernetes using ElasticSearch, Kibana, Fluentd, and LogTrail
- Monitor Kubernetes and applications on Kubernetes with Prometheus
- Proxy Microservices with Linkerd
How it compares
Against the other 219 rated Udemy courses in DevOps on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 32% of them
- Reviews1,334#94 of 220 by number of reviews
- Length3.3 hoursshorter than 73% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2018earlier than 94% of them
Quality Score
Overall Score : 86 / 100
Course Description
Kubernetes Advanced Usage is the second Kubernetes course in the "Learn DevOps: Kubernetes" series. If you don't have basic Kubernetes experience, make sure you follow first the course "Learn DevOps: The Complete Kubernetes Course".
This course covers:
- Logging using ElasticSearch, Kibana, Fluentd, and LogTrail
- Authentication using Auth0
- Authorization using RBAC
- Packaging using Helm
- Deploying on Kubernetes using Spinnaker
- Batch and Scheduling using Jobs and CronJobs
- Microservices on Kubernetes using Linkerd
- Federation using kubefed
- Monitoring using Prometheus
This course assumes you can setup your own cluster using Minikube or Kops. If you are looking for a course how to setup your first Kubernetes Cluster, take first the "Learn DevOps: The Complete Kubernetes Course"
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
1,334 Reviews
Edward Viaene
I've been a System Administrator and full stack developer for over 10 years, the typical profile for a DevOps engineer. I've been working in multiple organizations and startups. I've cofounded a startup that focusses on applying DevOps and Cloud. I have been training people in newer technologies, like Big Data. I've trained a lot of people working in FTSE 100 & S&P 100 companies. Today I mainly work together with companies to improve their software delivery processes, while coaching and teaching on platforms like Udemy.
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Reviews
By Natanam Sethu on 8/4/2021
it is a good course and the instructor is having a good knowledge on the subject and he is too fast in english which makes it little tough to understand the concepts and his demos
By Tomasz Suchorowski on 4/10/2020
somewhat what I expected, since you can't deep dive on all of those topics in just a few hours, as each one of them is more than enough to fill-in a course on its own (Prometheus, ELK, Service Mesh). This course gives you an overview of some of the more advanced topics and usage scenarios as well as some of the related tools within k8s ecosystem.
By Sélim MIRA on 8/14/2019
Decent but not as good as the main kubernetes course in terms of value Job resource and scheduling are simple topics and should have been in the main course Logging is interesting but package management and RBAC are already covered in the main course and i think the Linkerd, Federation and Monitoring topics were pretty meh especially since istio has a somewhat similar Well anyway, Edward's courses are overall great but this one just has a bit less value in term of contents compared to other ones. If you want to discover more use cases, go ahead, otherwise the main course will be enough to know most of what you need
By Heather L Young on 4/23/2019
This course is a couple of year old so in the DevOps world that is a little old. Most sections are still up-to-date, but the section on Federation could use some updating. All the technologies and tools it introduces are relevant to my work. My main wish for this course is if it didn't depend only on kops, or provided some flexibility for other cloud platforms. I was using a combination or bare metal cluster and GKE and adapting the content for alternative clouds took some time.
By Anonymized User on 4/17/2019
The course itself isn't bad, but one could argue the title isn't the most appropriate. The author gives a brief overview of beyond-the-basics topics that can be explored with Kubernetes, but does not go into detail, explain potential use cases or his implementaton was done the way it was.
By Sakis Chliopanos on 12/28/2018
I will try to be honest here. Coming from the Basic Kubernetes course of Edward Viaene I was expecting this course to build up on previous knowledge and deliver content of the same quality standards. However this course is another kind of beast. It gives more or less an appetizer of the extra topics. Also many of the demos break because of versioning issues when you try to follow along. In the basic course this was rarely the case as demos were solid. But this is not so much the tutor's fault. Most of the topics here cover plugins, extras and add-on tools that are not part of the standard Kubernetes framework. Kubernetes ecosystem is changing fast so Mr. Viaene has to be constantly alert to keep his content up to date. All in all given the occasional setbacks this course give a good overview of many advanced tools and solutions.
By Anonymized User on 4/2/2018
The course was very well put together and presented in a professional manner. The demo's were very useful as well as being able to download the files used so that I can do it myself in my own lab.
By Chris LoGiudice on 3/2/2018
Great course, especially the Authentication and Authorization sections. I was hoping for a longer more in depth section on Logging but it at least provides a good starting point. More detail about service discovery with Linkerd would also be helpful...
By Gabriel Garrido on 2/14/2018
It's a great course to have an idea of advanced topics like fluentd, rbac, auth0 with oauth2, and a few more deployment techniques and monitoring alternatives.
By Mikael Allison on 12/15/2017
It's a very good course for not only explanations but providing real world solutions to real world issues with the technology. More please!
By Wes Strater
Took the Complete Kubernetes course and he went into greater details on each topic. Felt this was more of an overview.
By Anonymized User
I like the course since it gives nice extras for Kubernetes. However, some topics are rich and they need more explanation. Also, they need to be explained as if they run in production environment to show best practices

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