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START HERE 3  \nII. ADMIN VS USER 4  \nIII. K 8 S ADMIN ROADMAP  \nFundamental Concepts 7  \nWork with Ku bernetes 9  \nKu bernetes Administration Path 12  \nIV . RECAP AND RESOURCES  \nSummary - K 8 s Road map 16  \nWhere to Learn 18  \nTWN Learning Resources 19  \nLearning Tip 22  \nW W W . T E C H W O R L D-W I T H-N A N A . C O M  \nStart Here  \nWhy Learning Kubernetes is a Good Idea  \nKubernetes (K8s) is being adopted at companies at a high pace and anyone with knowledge in it has a career advantage.  \nYou can even become a full-time K8s engineer at your job.  \nKubernetes job searches grew by 2125% in 4 years  \nKubernetes is powerful, but complex  \nK8s is a powerful platform, but a very complex one. Which means you have a steep learning curve.  \nSo even though many people want to learn Kubernetes, often they don’t know where to start. Soit certainly helps to have a guidance and sort of aroadmap of how to approach learning K8s efficiently.  \nThat’s why I want to give you this step by step roadmap of what to learn and in which order to structure your learning of K8s.  \nYou can also find corresponding learning resources, where to learn from at the end.  \nPre-Requisite-Containers  \nKubernetes is built on containers, so before learning Kubernetes you should be able to run and build containers.  \nAdministrator vs User  \nMost important point to consider, when you start learning Kubernetes  \nKubernetes platform-as any other platform-has two sides or aspects:  \nAdministration  \nSet Up and Maintenance of K 8s cluster  \nSet up, initialize and configure the K8s cluster for its actual usage.  \nUsage of K 8s cluster  \nDeploying applications and services into the K8s cluster  \nThere are even different certifications for these 2:  \nCKA  \nCKAD  \nAdministrator vs User  \nDecide based on your role  \nSo these are 2 different roles and you need to understand, which aspect of the technology you want to learn?  \nAre you working in Operations?  \nYou need to learn K 8s Administration and Operations side and follow this road map  \nAre you an Application Developer?  \nYou need a road map of how to use K 8s to deploy and run apps inside the cluster  \nCheck out the other roadmap for K8s Users  \nAdministrator vs User  \nLearning both sides  \nNote however, there are fundamental concepts that apply to both...  \nAnd you can eventually learn both, but you should divide it and learn one part first and then build the other on top!  \nThis will make your learning process much easier and more structured :)  \nFundamental Concepts  \nFirst, you need to learn fundamental concepts. 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Understand why each one exists and what are their relation and connection to each other  \nYou work with these K8s objects directly: You create Deployments, Services etc, you join Worker Nodes to the cluster and so on .  \nK8s Components-How K8s works behind the scenes  \nBut there are components of K8s, that work behind","cbCaihUab5LOPu37","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihUab5LOPu37","pdf",4675436,22,"English","# START HERE\n## Why Learning Kubernetes is a Good Idea\n# ADMIN VS USER\n## Administrator vs User\n## Learning both sides\n# K8S ADMIN ROADMAP\n## Fundamental Concepts\n## Work with Kubernetes\n### Access and Interacting with K8s\n### K8s Manifest Files\n### Troubleshooting\n# RECAP AND RESOURCES\n## Summary - K8s Roadmap\n## Where to Learn\n## TWN Learning Resources\n## Learning Tip","[{\"question\":\"Why should administrators learn Kubernetes, and what makes learning it worth it?\",\"answer\":\"Kubernetes is being adopted quickly, and people with Kubernetes knowledge can gain strong career advantages. 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