Kubernetes Ops Field Manual

Node pressure, scheduling quirks, and upgrade rehearsals for teams inheriting clusters they did not design.

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We walk through realistic failure injections: pending pods, eviction signals, and version skew. You keep a field notebook structure you can reuse on call.

What the syllabus includes

  • kubectl triage drills with annotated outputs
  • Resource quota scenarios with noisy neighbors
  • Upgrade rehearsal checklist for control plane + data plane
  • etcd overview without drowning in theory
  • CNI-agnostic debugging flow for DNS drops
  • Incident narrative writing (facts vs guesses)
  • Capstone: postmortem draft for a seeded outage

Artifacts you leave with

  • Complete a triage worksheet under time pressure twice
  • Produce an upgrade rehearsal agenda for your org
  • Identify three signals you would page on vs log-only

Lead mentor

Siriwimon Kasemsuk — Kubernetes contributor focus on operability docs.

Duration: 7 weeks · evenings · Format: cohort · Category: applied labs · Level: advanced

Price (informational): 18,200 THB — see Money-Back Policy for eligibility notes.

FAQ

We align topics with CKA domains but this is not a cram school—depth over exam tricks.

Participant notes

Field Manual’s eviction lab made me finally read the kubelet logs instead of guessing.

— Daniel