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✅ DevOps Level
Kubernetes & Orchestration
Complete Beginner → Advanced Syllabus (Pin-to-Pin)
🟢 LEVEL 1 — Kubernetes Basics
1. Kubernetes Architecture
- Control plane components
- Worker nodes
- API server & etcd
- Scheduler & controller manager
2. Pods & Deployments
- Pod definition
- Containers in pods
- Deployment specifications
- Replica sets
🟢 LEVEL 2 — Networking
3. Kubernetes Services
- ClusterIP services
- NodePort services
- LoadBalancer services
- Service discovery
4. Ingress Controller
- Ingress resource definition
- Ingress controller deployment
- Routing rules
- TLS termination
🟡 LEVEL 3 — Configuration Management
5. ConfigMaps & Secrets
- ConfigMap creation
- Secret management
- Environment variables
- Volume mounts
6. Resource Management
- CPU & memory requests
- Limits enforcement
- Quality of service
- Namespace isolation
🟡 LEVEL 4 — Auto-Scaling
7. Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
- HPA configuration
- Metrics collection
- Scale-up & scale-down policies
- Custom metrics
8. Cluster Scaling
- Node auto-scaling
- Cluster provisioning
- Node pools
- Cost optimization
🟠 LEVEL 5 — Storage
9. Persistent Volumes
- PersistentVolume creation
- PersistentVolumeClaim binding
- Storage classes
- Volume provisioning
10. StatefulSets
- Stateful workloads
- Persistent ordinal identities
- Headless services
- Stable storage
🟠 LEVEL 6 — Observability
11. Monitoring & Logging
- Metrics server
- Prometheus integration
- Container logs
- Distributed tracing
12. Debugging
- Pod inspection
- Event logs
- Debugging containers
- Network debugging
🔵 LEVEL 7 — Advanced Deployments
13. Deployment Strategies
- Rolling updates
- Blue/Green deployments
- Canary releases
- GitOps approaches
14. Job & CronJob
- One-off jobs
- Parallel execution
- Scheduled jobs
- Job completion
🔵 LEVEL 8 — Security
15. RBAC & Policies
- Role-based access control
- ServiceAccounts
- Network policies
- Pod security policies
16. Container Security
- Image scanning
- Runtime scanning
- Secrets encryption
- Admission control
🔴 LEVEL 9 — Production Operations
17. Cluster Management
- Multi-cluster management
- Upgrade strategies
- Backup & restore
- Disaster recovery
18. Cost Optimization
- Resource efficiency
- Reserved capacity
- Cost allocation
- Capacity planning
⭐ Senior Frontend Focus (Must Master)
- Deploying frontend apps to Kubernetes
- ConfigMaps for environment-specific builds
- Service & Ingress for frontend exposure
- Auto-scaling for traffic spikes
- Health checks for frontend pods
- Persistent storage for logs/cache
- Rolling deployments for frontend updates