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Kubernetes is a robot made of cats. Not robotic cats like Voltron. Actual, you know. Cats.

You can learn the basics in a week. It will take a very very long time to learn to be comfortable in it.

Kubernetes The Hard Way is the usual answer to "how do I learn this?"

This is unfortunately and hilariously accurate.

It’s a great system in a lot of ways, but it sure has lots of quirks.

> in a way that you can primarily use a GUI

Rancher filled this role for me. Would recommend.

https://rancher.com/

https://github.com/rancher/rancher#rancher

Seconded. I used Rancher 1.x which used their own framework called Cattle. Since Kubernetes took off they moved exclusively to k8s. It's a great product.

https://infra.app/ is a great way to view, understand and troubleshoot apps on Kubernetes

The distros are provided by different vendors in the market (Red Hat, Pivotal, Rancher, others). It's a way for them to bundle in additional features while staying compliant with the standard Kubernetes APIs

I made a few YouTube videos showing how I get Rancher and a K8s cluster running in the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes offering (DOKS)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcdHMZkfm5ujt60AwNh1E...

Also available in text but it’s not as detailed as the videos, basically my cheat sheets published:

https://avencera.com/learn

"Kubernetes in action" is a very good book. The first half can get you a pretty good hands-on understanding in 1-2 days.

There's a CLI named k9s[0] but it works like a GUI. It's pretty slick IMO.

[0]: https://github.com/derailed/k9s

Udemy has good Kubernetes training. If you're hoping for an easy-to-use one-click GUI - good luck. vSphere 7 is finally integrating containers into their platform but even that is a mess to get up and running at this point.

There are so many distributions because it's COMPLICATED. Everyone is approaching it from a different angle trying to make it consumable by the enterprise.

If you look for the kubernetes code labs on google cloud, they’ll get you deploying stuff to kubernetes in a few minutes.

Simple way to learn is to load up an AKS cluster (free for the master, simple to follow tutorials online), then learn to create a deployment and link a service to it (just a yaml file). It's really only an extra step or two on running a docker container.

Here are some resources I collected over the time

References:

https://chrisshort.net/kubernetes-illustrated-childrens-guid...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10NltoF_6y3mBwUzQ4bcQ... (The Kubernetes Learning Resources List)

https://github.com/jamiehannaford/what-happens-when-k8s

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes

https://github.com/nkuba/k8s-admin-helper

https://github.com/ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes

https://github.com/topics/cka?o=desc&s=stars

https://github.com/topics/kubernetes?o=desc&s=stars

https://k3s.io

https://kind.sigs.k8s.io