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Why Kubernetes Is Not a Beginner Tool

Kubernetes is often treated as the starting point for DevOps learning.

This is a mistake.

Kubernetes is an orchestration system, not a teaching tool.

What Kubernetes Assumes You Already Know

Infrastructure fundamentals:

Virtual machines

Networking

Storage

Containers:

Image creation

Resource limits

Runtime behavior

Application delivery:

Deployments

Scaling

Failure handling

Without this knowledge, Kubernetes becomes configuration memorization.

The Result of Starting Too Early

Copy-pasted YAML files

Fragile deployments

No understanding of why things break

Kubernetes hides complexity.
Beginners need to see that complexity first.

At InfraForgeLabs – DevOpsMind, Kubernetes is introduced only after core DevOps concepts are understood.

At InfraForgeLabs – InfraForge, Kubernetes templates are generated based on real-world infrastructure assumptions.

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