Kubernetes Workshop Series: Scaling the Kubernetes Mountain

​Join Chase Christensen (CNCF Ambassador, Kubestronaut, Kubeflow Maintainer, and AMLC Member) for an intensive, full-day, hands-on workshop designed to take you from Kubernetes novice to Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).

We are bridging the gap between cloud-native infrastructure and the future of AI. Kubernetes is rapidly becoming the backbone of modern AI/ML pipelines, and mastering container orchestration is essential for scaling next-generation workloads. Come for the certification, stay for the notebooks and PyTorch model serving!

​### 📍 Event Details

• ​Location: Rule4 (3002 Bluff St #100, Boulder, CO 80301)

• ​Schedule: Starts at 9:00 AM (Full-day training)

• ​Food: Breakfast and lunch provided!

• ​Raffle: Attendees can enter to win CKAD exam test coupons and copies of the SRE Handbook.

​### 📅 Workshop Highlights

• ​K8s Fundamentals: Pods, Jobs, and Deployments.

• ​Interactive Environments: Running notebooks natively on K8s.

• ​MLOps: Deploying and serving PyTorch models.

• ​Real-World Case Study: We'll use Kubeflow (an open-source AI/ML application development platform) as a hands-on case study to demonstrate how these core Kubernetes concepts power production-grade machine learning systems.

• ​Advanced Logic: Controllers and Operators.

• ​Exam Prep: Strategies to ace the CKAD.

​### 💻 Requirements

​#### Hardware & OS

• ​OS: macOS or Linux (No Windows, please).

• ​RAM: 8GB is plenty.

• ​Cloud Infrastructure: We will be running Cloud Kubernetes clusters using provided lab accounts for our main workloads.

​#### Software & Accounts

• ​Docker Desktop: Recommended for local image builds and pushes. You can also use Podman or any other of your favorite container runtimes!

• ​Docker Hub: A Docker Hub account is recommended for image registry workflows (pushing local images)

• ​kubectl: Installed and verified via kubectl version --client in your terminal.

• ​IDE: Your choice (VS Code, Vim, Cursor, etc.). Just ensure you can edit YAML comfortably.

​#### Recommended Familiarity

• ​Terminal: Basic navigation (`cd`, ls) and CLI usage.

• ​YAML: Understanding indentation and syntax.

• ​Containers: High-level grasp of Docker images and runtimes.

​### 📚 Community Library

​Thanks to our partnership with O'Reilly, the AMLC has a library of books to share. Stop by to grab a book, leave one you've finished, or browse—our goal is collective learning and community connection.

​Ready to level up your container skills and prepare for the CKAD? See you there