Prasanta Kumar Behera
Hands-on Projects — Build It End to End
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Hands-on Projects — Build It End to End

Practitioner → Advanced6 lessonsAvailable

Guided end-to-end builds that combine several courses, the way interviews and real jobs ask for them. Each project starts with the resources you need and the flow you're building, walks through every step with commands and checks, lists the questions an interviewer will ask, and ends with a command summary you can revise from.

You'll meetAWS EC2kubeadmCiliumJenkinsArgo CDcontainer registrykube-vipMetalLBEKSTerraformPrometheusApplicationSets
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What you'll be able to do

  • Build a Kubernetes cluster on cloud VMs or bare metal from scratch
  • Wire Git → CI → registry → cluster, with Jenkins and with GitOps
  • Explain every component, decision and check in an interview
  • Keep a reusable command summary for each build

Before you start

Linux Level 1, Kubernetes Administration Level 1; the rest is linked where needed.

How it works

Each lesson: plain-language idea → how it really works → hands-on. Each section ends with a cheat sheet & self-check.

Curriculum

Lessons marked “Read” are ready; the rest are on the way.

CI/CD pipelines

  1. 01AWS VMs → kubeadm → Cilium → Jenkins deploys from GitThe classic interview build, push to Git triggers a deployRead →
  2. 02The same pipeline, GitOps style with Argo CDCI builds and commits a tag; Argo CD pulls and syncsRead →
  3. 📋Cheat sheet & self-checkEvery command from this section on one page, then 6 questions to check yourself.Open →

Platform builds

  1. 03Bare-metal HA lab: kube-vip, MetalLB, ingress, TLSThree control planes on KVM, real load balancer IPs, HTTPSRead →
  2. 04EKS with Terraform and an ALBVPC + EKS modules, ECR, AWS Load Balancer ControllerRead →
  3. 📋Cheat sheet & self-checkEvery command from this section on one page, then 6 questions to check yourself.Open →

Operate the platform

  1. 05Observability stack with SLO alertskube-prometheus-stack, ServiceMonitor, burn-rate alertingRead →
  2. 06A GitOps fleet on kindArgo CD ApplicationSets across three clusters, in wavesRead →
  3. 📋Cheat sheet & self-checkEvery command from this section on one page, then 6 questions to check yourself.Open →

Real-world scenarios

Work through each one: symptom → misleading signal → evidence → root cause → prevention.

The interviewer asks: where does the image live, and how does the node pull it?

Registry choices and pull credentials on self-managed clusters.

Jenkins deploys, but the pod is ImagePullBackOff

Private registry, secrets and tags.

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