In the ever-evolving landscape of modern software deployment, Kubernetes has emerged as a guiding star for organizations seeking to harness the power of containerization and scale their applications seamlessly. Born out of Google's internal container orchestration system, Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for managing containerized applications across diverse environments.

The Containerization Revolution

Before Kubernetes, deploying and managing applications could often be a complex and error-prone endeavor. Containers revolutionized this process by encapsulating applications and their dependencies, providing consistency across development, testing, and production environments. However, as applications grew in complexity, so did the challenges of orchestrating these containers at scale.

Smooth Sailing with Kubernetes

Kubernetes tackles these challenges head-on by automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. At its core, Kubernetes provides a framework that enables developers to declare their application's desired state, and the system takes care of ensuring that the current state matches the desired state.

Resources:

• Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners [FULL COURSE in 4 Hours] (It's a great start to learn what is kubernetes)(Free)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (Kubernetes Administration course by Mumshad, also has a free lab on kodekloud for anyone who bought the course from udemy)(Paid)
• Kubernetes Complete Reference (Sample Traning Code)
• Kubernetes in real world

Helm is a popular open-source package manager for Kubernetes, designed to simplify the deployment and management of applications and services on a Kubernetes cluster. It helps streamline the process of creating, sharing, and managing Kubernetes manifests and configurations by providing a templating system and a way to package and version these configurations into reusable "charts."

Resources:

• Learn Helm with this full "Mini Course" - Richard Chesterwood (English Language) (Free)