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My only complaints are that the audio is not normalized across the videos and the viewing experience is negatively affected by sudden highs and lows in the volu

My only complaints are that the audio is not normalized across the videos and the viewing experience is negatively affected by sudden highs and lows in the volume. The cookie banner is also tickling my OCD as it pops up every time I change pages. I would prefer that this content be made available in a written format as videos are not great for communicating this non-visual information (however most people are more comfortable watching than they are reading). A of the content of these videos with the diagrams included would be perfect.

gatherhunterer 7y ago
I have now finished the videos and have a few thoughts. Firstly, because I mentioned this before, the audio has some serious quirks that need to be fixed. The videos by John Harris in particular are very quiet and require me to set my audio to a volume that would be deafening on most other video or audio file. I actually had to adjust my audio hardware's volume because maxing it out on the OS was still too quiet. Secondly, there seems to be a disconnect between what the page claims Kubernetes Academy is and what content is covered in the course. None of the videos are meant to be used as code-along projects and none of them offer any instruction or direction to the viewer. The videos cover the theory of Kubernetes and nothing else, even the "operations" section has videos that follow a train-of-thought approach to some tips and tricks but assume that you already know how to use the tools being described. This is particularly strange in the case of the "Introduction to Kubectl" video because the content is in no way an introduction and the instructor begins by saying that he assumes you are already comfortable with kubectl. The description of the video even seems to contradict the title's claim that it is introductory. Thirdly, the videos are not instructional. I did find value in this course and I understand Kubernetes better now than I did before but they are actually lectures and are not meant to get a viewer up and running with their own project. When I saw this yesterday I dedicated my secondary monitor to the page and set my terminal to full-screen on the primary monitor and was ready to dig into Kubernetes. Even the "operations" video on kubectl is impossible to follow without constant pausing and back-tracking. The instructor types out a command while explaining it and immediately executes and moves on to the next command. Again, it seems like written content being forced into a video format. Although I did learn from the course I wish that I had just started with Kubernetes's own tutorial because I still had nothing Kubernetes-related accomplished to show for my time. I would recommend this content to someone who does not know what Kubernetes is and would like to know enough to decide whether or not to learn it.

gatherhunterer 7y ago

I have now finished the videos and have a few thoughts. Firstly, because I mentioned this before, the audio has some serious quirks that need to be fixed. The videos by John Harris in particular are very quiet and require me to set my audio to a volume that would be deafening on most other video or audio file. I actually had to adjust my audio hardware's volume because maxing it out on the OS was still too quiet. Secondly, there seems to be a disconnect between what the page claims Kubernetes Academy is and what content is covered in the course. None of the videos are meant to be used as code-along projects and none of them offer any instruction or direction to the viewer. The videos cover the theory of Kubernetes and nothing else, even the "operations" section has videos that follow a train-of-thought approach to some tips and tricks but assume that you already know how to use the tools being described. This is particularly strange in the case of the "Introduction to Kubectl" video because the content is in no way an introduction and the instructor begins by saying that he assumes you are already comfortable with kubectl. The description of the video even seems to contradict the title's claim that it is introductory. Thirdly, the videos are not instructional. I did find value in this course and I understand Kubernetes better now than I did before but they are actually lectures and are not meant to get a viewer up and running with their own project. When I saw this yesterday I dedicated my secondary monitor to the page and set my terminal to full-screen on the primary monitor and was ready to dig into Kubernetes. Even the "operations" video on kubectl is impossible to follow without constant pausing and back-tracking. The instructor types out a command while explaining it and immediately executes and moves on to the next command. Again, it seems like written content being forced into a video format. Although I did learn from the course I wish that I had just started with Kubernetes's own tutorial because I still had nothing Kubernetes-related accomplished to show for my time. I would recommend this content to someone who does not know what Kubernetes is and would like to know enough to decide whether or not to learn it.