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Gain insights into building serverless applications on Kubernetes, using Knative, Tekton for CI/CD pipelines, and integrating GitHub for automated builds and deployments through GitHub events.

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Businesses are modernizing and adopting multi-cloud approaches to deliver services. This shift in application deployment has given rise to containerization and Kubernetes for the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. This course introduces you to serverless computing and shows you how to build serverless applications using Knative. It teaches CI/CD using Tekton and shows you how to build pipelines triggered by GitHub events. You will create a pipeline that builds container i...Show More

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Hands-on experience building serverless applications using Knative

Thorough understanding of CI/CD with Tekton

Hands-on experience creating a Tekton Pipeline

The ability to build pipelines that are triggered by GitHub events

Thorough understanding of the usage of Cloud Native Buildpacks in the Tekton Pipeline

Hands-on experience building serverless applications using Knative

Course Content

21 Lessons1 Project4 Quizzes

Before We Begin

1 Lessons

Get familiar with modernizing app deployment using Kubernetes, containerization, and serverless computing.

What to Expect in This Course

Introduction

3 Lessons

Look at Kubernetes' architecture, serverless computing benefits, and Kubernetes cluster setup steps.

Kubernetes Overview and Architecture

The Serverless Landscape

Setting up the Kubernetes Cluster

Using Knative to Run Serverless Applications

4 Lessons

Examine Knative Serving setup, first application deployment, autoscaling, and management of serverless applications.

Setting up Knative Serving

Deploy Your First Application

Autoscaling Services

Wrap-up and Quiz

CI/CD Using Tekton

6 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of building CI/CD pipelines with Tekton on Kubernetes.

Introduction to CI/CD and Tekton

Tekton Installation

Configure the Container Registry Credential and ServiceAccount

The build and deploy Tasks

Create the Tekton Pipeline

Wrap-up and Quiz

Automate Tekton Pipeline Execution

4 Lessons

Automate Tekton Pipelines to respond to GitHub events and ensure secure, seamless CI/CD execution.

EventListener and RBAC Configuration

Implement Triggers

Listen for Events from GitHub

Wrap-up and Quiz

Build Container Images without Dockerfile

3 Lessons

Follow how Cloud Native Buildpacks streamline secure image creation and integration in CI/CD workflows.

Docker and Cloud Native Buildpacks

Using Buildpacks in Tekton Pipelines

Wrap-up and Quiz

Build the UI For the Platform

Project

Certificate of Completion

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