What is k8s-tutorials?

guangzhengli/k8s-tutorials — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-06-26

★ 5,805GoAudience · developerComplexity · 3/5Setup · moderate

Mindmap

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    What it covers
      Containers basics
      Pods and Deployments
      Services and Ingress
      Helm packaging
    Learning path
      Progressive lessons
      Hands-on exercises
      Modified example code
    Sample app
      hellok8s in Go
      Used throughout
    Prerequisites
      Container knowledge
      Basic k8s theory
    Access
      GitHub repo
      Author website

mindmap root((k8s-tutorials)) What it covers Containers basics Pods and Deployments Services and Ingress Helm packaging Learning path Progressive lessons Hands-on exercises Modified example code Sample app hellok8s in Go Used throughout Prerequisites Container knowledge Basic k8s theory Access GitHub repo Author website

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Follow step-by-step exercises to learn Kubernetes by deploying real workloads rather than reading documentation alone.

USE CASE 2

Use the hellok8s Go sample app to practice deploying, scaling, and managing applications on a Kubernetes cluster.

USE CASE 3

Learn Helm packaging by deploying a complete application using the chart examples in the final lessons.

USE CASE 4

Study Kubernetes secrets, configmaps, and ingress by modifying the example code incrementally across lessons.

What is it built with?

GoKubernetesDockerHelm

How does it compare?

	guangzhengli/k8s-tutorials	ackites/killwxapkg	cortexproject/cortex
Stars	5,805	5,805	5,801
Language	Go	Go	Go
Setup difficulty	moderate	moderate	hard
Complexity	3/5	3/5	5/5
Audience	developer	developer	ops devops

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 1h+

Requires a running Kubernetes cluster such as Minikube or Kind and basic familiarity with containers before starting.

So what is it?

This repository is a free, open-source Kubernetes tutorial written primarily in Chinese. Kubernetes (often shortened to k8s) is a system used to run and manage containerized applications at scale. The tutorial is aimed at people who want hands-on practice rather than just reading documentation. The course is structured as a progressive series of lessons. It starts with the most basic concept, a container, and then introduces each Kubernetes resource type one at a time: pods, deployments, services, ingress, namespaces, configmaps, secrets, jobs and cronjobs, and finally Helm, which is a tool for packaging and deploying a full application. Each lesson builds on the previous one with gradually modified example code. The README notes that the tutorial assumes you have some familiarity with containers and basic Kubernetes theory beforehand. If you are starting from zero, it recommends reading the official Kubernetes documentation first, then using this tutorial to reinforce that knowledge through practice. The tutorial content is also published on the author's personal website at guangzhengli.com/courses/kubernetes, where the reading experience is described as better than browsing GitHub directly. The repository accepts community contributions through pull requests and issues, and hosts a discussions section for questions. A small Go application called hellok8s is used as the sample workload throughout the lessons.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

I'm following the k8s-tutorials by guangzhengli. I've set up a basic pod but need help writing a Deployment manifest that scales to 3 replicas with a rolling update strategy.

Prompt 2

Using the hellok8s example app from guangzhengli/k8s-tutorials, show me how to expose it via a Kubernetes Service and Ingress so I can reach it from my browser.

Prompt 3

Help me create a Kubernetes ConfigMap and Secret for the hellok8s app, then mount them as environment variables inside the pod.

Prompt 4

I'm on the Helm lesson in guangzhengli/k8s-tutorials. Show me how to package the hellok8s app as a Helm chart with configurable replica count.

Prompt 5

Walk me through setting up a Kubernetes namespace and deploying hellok8s into it with a dedicated service account.

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