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](https://www.rule4.com/) (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. *…