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by paulgb 1680 days ago
There is a series of Google-created Kubernetes/GKE courses on Coursera that include hands-on labs where you get to try stuff on GKE without paying usage fees.

The course content is a bit wanting (it sometimes feels more like an advert for GCP products than a course), but if you watch the videos that look relevant and do the labs, I think you’ll get something out of it. Coursera does cost money but has a free trial.

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I can second this suggestion.

I've been doing these GCP and GKE related courses the last few months as an experienced full-stack developer who is expanding their skill set be to fullerer-stack(?).

The hands-on "labs" might feel like you are mindlessly "following along" with the tutorial but you actually learn quite a lot. The "labs" are also safe in the sense that you can't shoot yourself in the credit card.

Yes, there are clearly some small parts of the courses which were later inserted as ads for new services, but it is not a big deal.

I do recommend learning the basics of what GCP has to offer though and not just concentrating 100% on k8s/GKE.