Kubernetes Fundamentals for Cloud-Native Applications is a hands-on course that introduces learners to the core components, architecture, and real-world deployment strategies of Kubernetes—the leading container orchestration platform. The course begins with the basics of container orchestration and why Kubernetes is essential for managing distributed, cloud-native applications. Learners are introduced to Kubernetes architecture, including the control plane, nodes, pods, services, and key resources such as ConfigMaps, Secrets, and PersistentVolumes. They learn how to deploy containerized applications using YAML manifests, kubectl commands, and Helm charts. The course explores the declarative model of managing infrastructure as code, highlighting how Kubernetes ensures desired state and enables self-healing, auto-scaling, and rolling updates. Networking fundamentals like ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, and Ingress controllers are covered in detail. Learners practice managing deployments, replica sets, and daemon sets, while understanding scheduling, labels, selectors, and affinity rules. Topics such as security, RBAC, and namespaces provide insights into multi-tenant management. Monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluentd are introduced. Students also gain experience deploying workloads to managed services like Amazon EKS, Google GKE, or Azure AKS. Real-world projects include building microservice architectures, CI/CD workflows, and blue-green deployments. By the end, learners will be confident in using Kubernetes to deploy, scale, and manage cloud-native applications in production environments.