Cloud ArchitectureAvailable
Kubernetes Production Patterns
About this course
Running Kubernetes in production requires decisions that tutorials skip. This course covers cluster architecture, RBAC, network policies, autoscaling with Karpenter, resource management, production observability, disaster recovery, and operational runbooks.
What you will learn
- Cluster architecture: managed vs self-hosted, node pools
- RBAC design and namespace isolation patterns
- Network policies for east-west traffic control
- Autoscaling: HPA, VPA, cluster autoscaler, and Karpenter
- Resource requests, limits, and QoS classes
- Production observability with Prometheus and Grafana
- Backup and DR with Velero and etcd snapshots
- Operational runbooks for common Kubernetes failures
Your instructor
Ayodele Ajayi
Principal Engineer
Principal Engineer based in Kent, UK, with extensive experience across cloud-native security, platform engineering, and distributed systems. Ayodele has led engineering teams at scale and writes about what he learns — with a bias towards things that actually work in production.