Watch this Tech Talk: https://do.co/video_kjuell Strategies for onboarding developers to Kubernetes — learn how to situate Kubernetes in a larger arc of application development and integrate it into an existing development workflow. What You'll Learn - Core concepts and insights from DigitalOcean's new Kubernetes for Full-Stack Developers curriculum: https://www.digitalocean.com/communit... - How to onboard teams successfully by establishing knowledge baselines and effectively organizing, structuring, and delivering Kubernetes concepts About the Presenter Kathleen Juell is a Developer on the Web Platforms team at DigitalOcean. She co-designed and contributed to the new Kubernetes for Full-Stack developers curriculum, and worked on migrating DigitalOcean’s Community Platform to Kubernetes. This talk is a blend of perspectives from both of these workflows. New to DigitalOcean? Get US $100 in credit when you sign up: https://do.co/deploytoday To learn more about DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/digitalocean Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalOcean Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedigitalocean/ We're hiring: http://do.co/careers

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4. Why Am I Here Today?
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7. Effective Kubernetes onboarding?
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8. Effective Kubernetes onboarding:
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● Know your audience and their objectives.

9. Effective Kubernetes onboarding:
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● Know your audience and their objectives.
● Determine the best approach to meet those objectives.

10. Effective Kubernetes onboarding:
Kathleen Juell, @katjuell
● Know your audience and their objectives.
● Determine the best approach to meet those objectives.
● Scope your approach appropriately.

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MEANWHILE … ON THE COMMUNITY PLATFORM

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14. Effective Kubernetes onboarding:
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● Know your audience and their objectives.
● Determine the best approach to meet those objectives.
● Scope your approach appropriately.

15. Part I: Audience
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16. Is your audience made up of
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● Application Developers

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● Application Developers
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed architecture in mind

18. Is your audience made up of
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● Application Developers
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed architecture in mind
2. Deploy successfully

19. Is your audience made up of
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● Operators

20. Is your audience made up of
Kathleen Juell, @katjuell
● Operators
Goals:
1. Deploy successfully

21. Is your audience made up of
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● Operators
Goals:
1. Deploy successfully
2. Automate deployments, pipelines & backups

22. Is your audience made up of
Kathleen Juell, @katjuell
● Operators
Goals:
1. Deploy successfully
2. Automate deployments, pipelines & backups
3. Implement logging, monitoring & alerting

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● Business Decision Makers

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● Business Decision Makers
Goals:
1. Make responsible financial decisions

25. Is your audience made up of
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● Business Decision Makers
Goals:
1. Make responsible financial decisions
2. Scope long-term goals for growth

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28. Part II: Approach
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Approach:
Application Developers
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Approach:
12FA Application
Application Developers
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Approach:
12FA Application
Modernize
Application Developers
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Approach:
12FA Application
Modernize
ContainerizeApplication Developers
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Approach:
12FA Application
Modernize
Containerize
Deploy
Application Developers
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Approach:
12FA Application
Blocker: Why is this necessary?
Modernize
Blocker: What is a distributed
architecture?
Containerize
Blocker: How do containers differ
from VMs?
Deploy
Blocker: What will change from the
tools/systems that I’m used to?
Application Developers
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Approach:
Meta-Level Topics:
What is Kubernetes?
What are containers?
Operational Topics:
12FA Application
Modernize
Containerize
Deploy
Application Developers
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Approach:
Ensure understanding of:
Where secrets are located
What’s in the
application/server base images
How to troubleshoot
Concourse
How to kick off and roll back
deployments
Developers on Community
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Approach:
Ensure understanding of:
Where secrets are located
What’s in the application base
image
How to troubleshoot Concourse
How to kick off and roll back
deployments
What does it mean to deploy in a
distributed environment at the
application level?
Developers on Community
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Approach:
Key Takeaways:
Make time for meta-level
discussions
Lay theoretical foundations
before operational
Developers on Community
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

41. Effective Kubernetes onboarding:
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● Know your audience and their objectives.
● Determine the best approach to meet those objectives.
● Scope your approach appropriately.

42. Formats to Consider:
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Documentation

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Documentation
Talks or videos

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49. Formats to Consider:
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Documentation
Talks or videos
Meeting

50. Formats to Consider:
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Documentation
Talks or videos
Meeting
broad
narrow

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Formats:
Internal Documentation
Meetings
VideosDevelopers on Community
Goals:
1. Develop with a distributed
architecture in mind.
2. Deploy successfully

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Onboarding
- Kathleen Juell, Developer, DODOX @ DigitalOcean
@katjuell