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What's a Kubernetes Development Environment & why you might need one

What's a Kubernetes Development Environment & why you might need one

Oct 01st, 2025

12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT

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Get productive fast with Kubernetes! shpod is an open-source, shell-in-a-pod environment with 30+ tools and a web IDE.

Price: Free

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When: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 | 12pm - 1pm EDT

Schedule: 1-Hour Free Webinar

Where: Online - Live Training


To work with Kubernetes, we need a bunch of different tools. Almost everyone uses at least kubectl; and most teams use some combination of helm, kustomize, stern, k9s, skopeo, jq, gron, opentofu… And of course we’ll want something to edit all that YAML, as well as our scripts, HCL files, and whatnot.

If you work with Kubernetes all the time, you’re probably all set already: you have installed these programs one by one when you needed them, and over time, just like a competent contractor, you have built yourself a reliable toolbox, that you update and augment regularly. Congratulations!

But what if we’re getting started with Kubernetes, and want to become effective as fast as possible? Or what if we’re onboarding our colleagues, or teaching a group of students? How can we give everyone a full-featured, standardized environment?

Jérôme teaches Kubernetes classes and has faced this challenge. He’ll show how he built “shpod”, an open-source shell-in-a-pod environment that can be deployed immediately to Kubernetes or other container platforms and provides an SSH server, a web-based IDE, and more than 30 tools to work with containers and Kubernetes.


About Jérôme Petazzoni:

Ardan Labs Lead Kubernetes & Docker Instructor

Jérôme was part of the team that built, scaled, and operated the dotCloud PAAS, before that company became Docker. He loves to share what he knows, which led him to give hundreds of talks and demos on containers, Docker, and Kubernetes.

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