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.