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Join Chase Christensen (Kubestronaut, Kubeflow Maintainer, and AMLC Member) for a multi-session, hands-on series designed to take you from Kubernetes novice to Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
We’re bridging the gap between cloud-native infrastructure and machine learning. Come for the certification, stay for the Spark workloads and model serving!

### 📅 Series Highlights

  • K8s Fundamentals: Pods, Jobs, and Deployments.
  • Data at Scale: Running Spark workloads natively on K8s.
  • MLOps: Deploying and serving trained ML models.
  • Advanced Logic: Controllers and Operators.
  • Exam Prep: Strategies to ace the CKAD.

🍕 Bonus: Pizza and beverages provided!

### 💻 Requirements

#### Hardware & OS

  • OS: macOS or Linux (No Windows, please).
  • RAM: 8GB is plenty.
  • Cloud Backup: If our workloads outpace your laptop, we’ll provide the necessary cloud infrastructure.

#### Software Setup

  • Docker Desktop: Install and ensure "Enable Kubernetes" is checked in settings.
  • kubectl: Verify 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 structure.
  • Containers: A high-level grasp of Docker images and runtimes.

#### Community Library

  • Thanks to our partnership with O'Reilly, the AMLC has plenty of books to share. Feel free to stop by, take a book for yourself, leave a book you are done with for someone else, or just browse. The goal is collective communication and collective learning!

Ready to bridge the gap? See you there!

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