Workshop: Building and breaking Kubernetes clusters

Workshop

Kubernetes promises high availability and resilience, but how does it recover from failures?

In this hands-on session, you will test Kubernetes’ fault tolerance by building a cluster from scratch and then methodically breaking it to observe its behaviour. You will gain deep insights into core components, including the control plane and the event-driven architecture that powers Kubernetes.

You’ll examine how kubelet maintains the desired state and verify the “no single point of failure” design principle. By taking down the cluster one node at a time, you will witness Kubernetes’ recovery mechanisms and develop a practical understanding of designing robust, production-ready deployments.

This session is ideal for DevOps practitioners, platform engineers, and anyone looking to strengthen their Kubernetes troubleshooting skills beyond theoretical knowledge.

Speaker

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Daniele Polencic

   
Daniele Polencic. Managing director and instructor at LearnK8s. Daniele is a technical consultant and instructor based in Singapore. Daniele is a certified Kubernetes administrator by the Linux ...