Advanced Kubernetes - Security, and Large-Scale Deployments

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This advanced course dives deep into Kubernetes, equipping you with the skills to build secure, scalable, and production-ready deployments. By the end, you’ll confidently manage Kubernetes resources, configure persistent storage, implement strong security practices, and deploy applications to cloud platforms like GKE using Kustomize. You'll also learn to tackle real-world infrastructure challenges such as handling secrets, configuring probes, and applying network policies. Your learning journey starts with advanced resource management—using labels, selectors, quotas, and namespaces—followed by implementing health checks through readiness, liveness, and startup probes. You'll then work with persistent storage solutions like volumes and StatefulSets, manage configuration and sensitive data using ConfigMaps and Secrets, and secure workloads with RBAC, service accounts, and Pod Security Standards. Kustomize will help you streamline multi-environment deployments with ease. This course is designed for DevOps engineers and cloud professionals with prior Kubernetes experience who are looking to scale, secure, and operate containerized applications in production environments.