What’s a good way to get past the Kubernetes basics?

First pin down what “advanced” means for you. If you still want more practice with deployments, services, and day-to-day resource work, CKA or CKAD prep gives you a useful structure. If those feel familiar already, a course may be less valuable than working through real troubleshooting problems.

Set up a local cluster with kind, k3s, or Minikube and use it as a lab. Deploy a few apps, write Helm charts, try a GitOps setup with Argo CD or Flux, then deliberately break things and work out what failed. For intermediate skills, that kind of hands-on work can teach more than watching another course.

If you want guided material, KodeKloud has course and lab options, including CKA and CKAD preparation. KillerCoda exercises are another practical way to get repetition with Kubernetes tasks. I’d treat either as a learning scaffold, not a substitute for building and debugging your own setups.

Try troubleshooting labs rather than only following lessons. Scenarios that make you diagnose a broken workload or cluster are a good way to find gaps in what you know. Kubernetes the Hard Way is also an option if you want a more involved, hands-on look at how the pieces fit together.