Cloud Native and Containerization

Introductory chapter: 12 factors, cloud native and distributed systems design.

Speech on the role of cloud technologies: IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/BaaS, elastic scaling, risks of cloud adoption and practical scenarios.

Comparison of AWS Well-Architected, Azure Well-Architected, and Google Cloud Architecture Framework: core pillars, shared principles, and practical usage.

Heroku methodology for SaaS: codebase, dependencies, config, backing services, build/release/run and other cloud-native principles.

Containers, Functions, Data: a practical guide to creating cloud-native applications from O'Reilly.

IaC practice for cloud-native: declarative models, state management, reusable modules, drift detection and secure rollout strategies.

A practical base on Kubernetes based on the official documentation v1.35: control plane, workload objects, networking, storage and operational minimum.

Catalog of patterns for K8s: fundamental, behavioral, structural and configuration patterns from Bilgin Ibryam.

Patterns from Brendan Burns: sidecar, ambassador, scatter/gather, work queues and batch processing.

How to implement GitOps: desired state in Git, pull-based delivery, Argo CD/Flux, progressive delivery and rollback in production.

Documentary analysis of the evolution of Argo (CD, Workflows, Rollouts, Events) and the practical implementation of GitOps as an engineering discipline of manageability.

Service mesh architecture: data plane/control plane, mTLS, traffic policy, observability and operational trade-offs.

How to design serverless systems: event-driven flow, cold starts, state management, idempotency and cost/latency trade-offs.

How to design edge systems: local processing, synchronization with cloud core, offline mode, node security and fleet operations.

Design of global cloud-native systems: multi-region topologies, consistency trade-offs, global traffic routing and disaster recovery.

How to manage the cost of cloud-native systems: CAPEX vs OPEX, short-term and long-term trade-offs, unit economics and FinOps practices.

How Google's Container Orchestrator Became an Industry Standard: Open Source, CNCF, and Pilot with Pokémon GO.

The history of the creation of Envoy Proxy in Lyft: sidecar pattern, xDS API and the path to the CNCF graduated project.

Current CKA structure, speed preparation strategy and selection of resources (mindmap + practical tips).