Technology changes and improves so rapidly that it’s easy to get left behind. Blink and the world changes around you. This happened to me in the area of Kubernetes and containers. I always thought, “meh, it’s containers and Kubernetes and I can figure it out before chatting to a customer”. Well, I was obviously wrong. It’s a an entire world, complete with training and certifications and an entire ecosystem of tools and integrations that make it the overwhelming beast that it is. And that world can be scary.
Luckily for me (and anyone else in my position) VMware have made it easy to gain access to FREE content which can help to augment my (and your) understanding of containers and container orchestration, modern applications, microservices and so on.
Kube.Academy is an online resource in which you can take a course or follow a learning path, a series of courses aligned to your desired outcome. The majority of the courses are vanilla, meaning that they are not VMware Tanzu product specific. This should be useful for anyone looking to gain an overview of the industry and technology without having to sit through the product specific content which may not be applicable.
Another incredibly useful resource, this time with more of a VMware Tanzu flavour, are the Tanzu Courses on the VMware Apps & Cloud Management Techzone.
Until next time, happy learning.