Kubernetes Academy, a free product-agnostic education platform

As someone who just started working at a company that is converting from VMware to Kubernetes but who has zero experience with it and only a little with Docker, this seems like a good start. Of course I have about 20 other tabs in my browser for learning.

Its very curious. I'm reminded of about 6 years back when I sent an email to Randall Stephenson (AT&T CEO) asking why they feel they can charge extra for tethering after selling "unlimited data." I included a parable, naturally, describing a baker who sells you bread, with a license agreement stating you can only eat the bread by itself. If you want to make yourself a sandwich you need to pay an extra 16% fee when you buy the bread to be able to use it for any derivative product, such as sandwiches or bread pudding, or croutons, or anything beyond raw bread.

This is nonsense. I own the things I buy and even if the law tells me otherwise, I will never accept these insane premises.

Firstly, because I mentioned this before, the audio has some serious quirks that need to be fixed. The videos by John Harris in particular are very quiet and require me to set my audio to a volume that would be deafening on most other video or audio file. I actually had to adjust my audio hardware's volume because maxing it out on the OS was still too quiet.

Secondly, there seems to be a disconnect between what the page claims Kubernetes Academy is and what content is covered in the course. None of the videos are meant to be used as code-along projects and none of them offer any instruction or direction to the viewer. The videos cover the theory of Kubernetes and nothing else, even the "operations" section has videos that follow a train-of-thought approach to some tips and tricks but assume that you already know how to use the tools being described. This is particularly strange in the case of the "Introduction to Kubectl" video because the content is in no way an introduction and the instructor begins by saying that he assumes you are already comfortable with kubectl. The description of the video even seems to contradict the title's claim that it is introductory.

Thirdly, the videos are not instructional. I did find value in this course and I understand Kubernetes better now than I did before but they are actually lectures and are not meant to get a viewer up and running with their own project. When I saw this yesterday I dedicated my secondary monitor to the page and set my terminal to full-screen on the primary monitor and was ready to dig into Kubernetes. Even the "operations" video on kubectl is impossible to follow without constant pausing and back-tracking. The instructor types out a command while explaining it and immediately executes and moves on to the next command. Again, it seems like written content being forced into a video format.

Although I did learn from the course I wish that I had just started with Kubernetes's own tutorial because I still had nothing Kubernetes-related accomplished to show for my time. I would recommend this content to someone who does not know what Kubernetes is and would like to know enough to decide whether or not to learn it.