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You learn this job by breaking your own cluster at home. When it won't come back up, learn the fix from engineers who run Kubernetes in production. From $10 a month.

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McKendrick
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Hegedus
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Krief
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Körbächer
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Krausen
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Sound familiar?

The deploy rolled out first time in the video

Yours stalled at the rollout. The course had already moved on to Helm. Our experts wrote the chapter on the part that broke.

what it won't teach is how k8s actually fails. that's the gap that bites people when they join a platform team.

An engineer on r/devops, July 2026

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

The instructor's run

Recorded once · 3m 12s

> deployment "web" successfully rolled out

  1. build
  2. test
  3. push
  4. apply
  5. rollout
  6. smoke

Your run, tonight

Your cluster · 10m 04s

> error: deployment "web" exceeded its progress deadline

  1. build
  2. test
  3. push
  4. apply
  5. rollout
  6. smoke
ExpertEdge
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Chapter 11Using Kubernetes Deployments for Stateless WorkloadsThe Kubernetes Bible, 2024

Why a rollout stalls past its progress deadline, and how to roll it back.

Where do I practise?

A course for every box in your rack

Keep breaking things at home. That's how this job is learned. Pick the box you're fixing tonight and take the course written for it.

Your homelab

The course beside it

68%of our cloud and DevOps titles start past the basics

Who wrote it?

Written by engineers who run it for a living

Our experts run production platforms at firms like Akamai and Node4. They write about the systems you break at home.

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    Mikael Krief, author of Terraform Cookbook

    Mikael Krief

    A HashiCorp Ambassador and Microsoft MVP, based in France.

    1 titleProfile
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    Russ McKendrick, author of The Kubernetes Bible

    Russ McKendrick

    Nearly 30 years in IT. He runs SRE and DevOps practice at Node4.

    3 titlesProfile
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    William Hegedus, author of Mastering Prometheus

    William Hegedus

    Leads an SRE team at Akamai. His course goes up to Thanos and SLOs.

    1 titleProfile
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    Hilliary Lipsig, author of Platform Engineering for Architects

    Hilliary Lipsig

    A principal SRE who builds Kubernetes platforms on GitOps.

    3 titlesProfile
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Is it current?

Your Kubernetes course still teaches dockershim

Kubernetes dropped it in 2022. Terraform changed its licence a year later. Every title here carries its release month. Check it against the change that bit you.

It's very out of date currently. Demos have been broken for a long time. UI long since changed.

A learner on r/AWSCertifications, March 2026
  1. 1

    Kubernetes drops dockershim

    May 2022

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    The Ultimate Docker Container BookMar 2026
  2. 2

    PodSecurityPolicy removed

    Aug 2022

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    Kubernetes – An Enterprise GuideAug 2024
  3. 3

    Terraform moves to the BSL

    Aug 2023

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    Infrastructure Automation with OpenTofu – Hands-On DevOpsDec 2024
  4. 4

    IBM buys HashiCorp

    Feb 2025

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    Hashicorp Terraform - Getting Started with Infrastructure as CodeDec 2025
166cloud and DevOps titles released since Terraform changed its licence

What do I learn next?

Pipelines to pagers, in the order you need them

Tutorials jump from Terraform to Argo CD with nothing holding them together. Set DevOps Engineer as your target and ExpertEdge lines up the skills it asks for, one at a time.

  1. What you already run

    Where you are

  2. CI/CD & Release Automation

  3. Cloud Platforms & Deployment

  4. Container Orchestration & Kubernetes

  5. Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management

  6. Observability, Monitoring & Logging

  7. Site Reliability Engineering, SLOs & Incident Management

  8. DevOps Engineer

    The goal

What about certs?

Pass the exam. Then take the course for the job.

Sitting the Terraform Associate or the KCNA? The exam guides are here. So is the course you'll open the week after you pass.

  1. Exam weekTerraform 004
    Cover image for Terraform Associate (004) Exam Prep Complete Hands-On Guide (2026)
    Terraform Associate (004) Exam Prep Complete Hands-On Guide (2026)2026
    The week after
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    Terraform CookbookMikael Krief2023 · Expert
  2. Exam weekKCNA
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    Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) with Practice Exams2025
    The week after
    Cover image for Kubernetes Anti-Patterns
    Kubernetes Anti-PatternsGovardhana Miriyala Kannaiah2024 · Intermediate
  3. Exam weekSAA-C03
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    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Exam Guide2024
    The week after
    Cover image for AWS for Solutions Architects
    AWS for Solutions ArchitectsSaurabh Shrivastava2025 · Expert

Why not just ask the AI?

Catch the API Kubernetes already removed

You already paste the error into Claude. You need enough Kubernetes to spot the suggestion the cluster will reject.

Your assistant

k8s/ingress.yaml

# Route shop.example.com to the web service
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: web
spec:
  rules:
    - host: shop.example.com
      http:
        paths:
          - backend:
              serviceName: web
              servicePort: 80

Almost right. Kubernetes 1.22 removed this API in 2021.

ExpertEdge
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Chapter 19

Ingress

Practical Kubernetes - Beyond CKA and CKAD Hands-on, 2025

Take this 2025 course before you accept the fix. It's well past 1.22.

quiz score for engineers who learned a new library with AI help. The group coding by hand scored 67%.Shen and Tamkin, Anthropic, 2026 (52 engineers)
50%
cloud and DevOps titles on putting AI to work in your pipelines, from Copilot for Terraform to AIOpsIn the ExpertEdge library
9

What's the catch?

What ExpertEdge isn't

  • A live class

    No cohort and no instructor on call. You read when the cluster needs it.

  • A hosted lab

    No clusters to rent by the hour. You practise on your own homelab.

  • A forum

    No forum or Q&A thread. Your team and the issue tracker do that job.

  • Another intro course

    We won't explain what a container is. Most titles start past the basics.

Keep breaking your homelab. The course on the fix is already here.

And the price?

One price, everything included

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