Kubernetes Basics

Why it matters

Kubernetes standardizes deployment and scaling for distributed systems.

Core steps

• Model workloads with Deployments and Jobs.
• Expose traffic using Services and Ingress.
• Configure with ConfigMaps and Secrets (avoid committing secrets).
• Watch health with probes and resource requests/limits.

Command sampler

• kubectl get pods to inspect workloads
• kubectl describe for debugging events
• kubectl logs -f to stream logs