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title: Let's get started with Kubernetes
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pub_date: 2022-06-03
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author: ungleich k8s team
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twitter_handle: ungleich
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Learning Kubernetes - the smart way
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## It's time for Kubernetes
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Like everybody else, you might have been following the topic of kubernetes for a while and
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maybe you wondered whether or not it's about time to learn
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kubernetes. So have we at ungleich. Over the years we tested kubernetes
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many times and quite often had the verdict "no, not yet".
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About one and a half year ago, our verdict finally changed. After much testings and learnings,
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we came to the conclusion that Kubernetes is stable enough to be
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running in the ungleich environment. Speaking of our environment, it is not only IPv6-only, but
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also needs to support a huge variety of workloads.
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## Open Source and Open Teaching
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Applying Kubernetes on our own datacenter required a lot of intense learning and
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real-life problem solving. We won't say that was always easy, but it has been quite rewarding.
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One of the main takeaways is that it can be tough to kickstart Kubernetes.
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Since it has a lot of different use-cases, concepts
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and configurations, it can be easily overwhelming.
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At ungleich we have always been standing for Open Source and
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[Open
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Communication](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure)
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and we want to continue this by passing on our knowledge about
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Kubernetes.
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## Is Kubernetes for me?
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That depends and there are many factors to consider. If you are an
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organisation and you want to standardise your application deployments
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or increase the efficiency of deployments, Kubernetes is a good choice.
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If you are an engineer or a developer and you are considering
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improving your career, learning Kubernetes is a good choice.
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## 2 Beginner Courses starting in Digital Glarus
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For this reason we will start 2 beginner courses this June
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(**Update: only 2 places left**) in the beautiful Hacking Villa in
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Diesbach, Switzerland.
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### Setting up Kubernetes
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The first course, [Kubernetes Setup
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Course](https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/school-digital-glarus/k8s-setup/)
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focuses on how to set up Kubernetes clusters. It is intended for
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Sysadmins and DevOps engineers that want to operate Kubernetes
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clusters.
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### Using Kubernetes
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After having a cluster setup, the big question is how to actually use
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it. Our second course, the [Kubernetes Usage
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Course](https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/school-digital-glarus/k8s-usage/)
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is focussing on the aspect of understanding the concepts of
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Kubernetes.
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## On-Site and Online
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Both courses are available On-Site in Switzerland as well as Online
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(choose the "Learning only" package for this one). If you choose to be
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onsite, you will visit us in the beautiful Swiss Alps and lodge in [a
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historic, protected building.](https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/school-digital-glarus/location/)
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## Intense + Personal + Relaxing
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At ungleich we know that intense learning (6 hours per day, 3 hours in
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the morning, 3 hours in the afternoon) also requires fitting calming
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down to be able to concentrate.
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For this reason we have local recommendations for hiking paths,
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swimming or - if you join the winter course - skiing.
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Our experience has shown that learnings in small groups with
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personal training are most effective. For this reason the size of the
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training groups is limited to 6 people.
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## A or B or A+B?
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If you are considering participating in the setting up or using
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Kubernetes course: you can take either of them or both of them, they
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work independently of each other.
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Note: for both courses we have 2 places free - if you are interested,
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you can apply directly on the course websites:
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* https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/school-digital-glarus/k8s-setup/
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* https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/school-digital-glarus/k8s-usage/
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## Looking forward to seeing you
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Ever since we started our company ungleich we have done things a bit
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differently, focusing on sustainability and open source. Since the launch of project Digital Glarus in 2015, many people from all over the world
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have visited us, learned with us and a lot of them even stayed in our community via our
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[Open Chat](https://ungleich.ch/u/projects/open-chat/). We look
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forward to welcoming you to Digital Glarus or teaching you online and
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maybe staying with us even longer.
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Our Open Chat is based on Matrix and if you are curious about what we
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do and write about Kubernetes, feel free to join
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#kubernetes:ungleich.ch.
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