⚙️kubernetes: zero to comfortable for a solo dev

skips the cert rabbit hole. just enough to run your own cluster without fear

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do it once for the concepts, don't make it a ritual. took a full saturday and i still skip half the steps a year later
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TechWorld with Nana's Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners (YouTube)
4 hours but i watched it at 1.5x over two evenings, the ingress + helm sections are the ones worth slowing down for
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this is the part that matters for a solo dev. lightweight, one binary, none of the control-plane ceremony
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CKAD/CKA certification prep
skipped this on purpose, my angle was running my own cluster not passing an exam. no regrets so far
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deploy an actual side project to it
this is where it stops being tutorial knowledge. broke my ingress config twice before it stuck

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