Outcome 1
A production-style Zero Trust Kubernetes platform
Free course
Cloud Native Security Engineering: Securing Kubernetes, Workloads, APIs & Zero Trust Systems
From passwords and perimeter trust to workload identity, Zero Trust, runtime protection, and production cloud-native security architecture
Outcomes
What you will be able to do and explain
Each outcome is tied to architecture, operational judgement, or a concrete deployment habit you can reuse at work.
Outcome 2
Secure workload identities with automatic rotation
Outcome 3
mTLS-encrypted services via Envoy SDS
Outcome 4
OPA-powered authorization policies
Outcome 5
Federated trust domains across clusters
Outcome 6
Production monitoring with Prometheus dashboards
Learning loop
Learn the model, practice the decision, keep the checklist
A beginner-to-advanced cloud-native security course that replaces secret sprawl and perimeter trust with workload identity, Zero Trust architecture, policy-as-code, runtime protection, and supply chain security. Includes 16 modules and 32 hands-on labs covering Kubernetes, SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA, Falco, Sigstore, Vault, Envoy, Istio, eBPF, and AI infrastructure security.
01
Inspect the architecture
Start every module with the system model: components, trust boundaries, data flow, and the production problem it solves.
02
Practice the failure mode
Labs and exercises focus on the operational edge cases that separate tutorial knowledge from production confidence.
03
Ship with judgement
Production notes, common mistakes, and tradeoffs make the course useful when you are designing or reviewing real systems.
Good fit
Who should take this course?
This course is written for engineers who need practical production context, not abstract theory.
Backend Engineers building cloud-native applications
DevOps Engineers securing Kubernetes infrastructure
Platform Engineers building internal developer platforms
SREs responsible for production security posture
Security Engineers entering cloud-native systems
Kubernetes Beginners who want security-first foundations
Cloud Architects designing multi-cloud security
Curriculum
Full course path
16 modules, 32 hands-on labs, 50+ hours of production-focused learning.
Focused guides
Start with the topic you need
Use a focused guide to understand the production problem, then continue into the relevant module and the full course path.
Related engineering guides
Connect the course to production decisions
Use these articles to review adjacent architecture choices, failure modes, and implementation tradeoffs.
Instructor
Vishal Anand
Senior Product Engineer & Tech Lead
Creator and maintainer of DRF API Logger, an Apache-2.0 package listed in Django REST Framework's third-party packages documentation. Educator at CodersSecret and author of the Mastering SPIFFE & SPIRE course. Builds production infrastructure security systems and teaches practical engineering - no theory without code, no concepts without labs.
FAQ
Questions before you start
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