Week 3 : Unified Orchestration Control Plane
What we build today
Python 3.11 FastAPI with seven day-scoped metric endpoints (Days 15–21).
React dashboard — one panel per lesson day plus a Run Demo control.
Docker Compose runtime: API, UI, Postgres, Redis, Kafka (KRaft).
Kubernetes manifest bundle: CRD/quota, Istio routes, GPU jobs, StatefulSet, ingress, microservices.
Automated cleanup and verification scripts for repeatable lab resets.
Week target and system placement
Week 3 moves you from isolated cluster exercises to a single operational surface. Platform teams at companies running global traffic (think payment rails, streaming catalogs, or ad-serving fleets) rarely inspect one YAML file at a time during incidents—they read aggregated posture: mesh policy, queue depth, PDB headroom, ingress saturation. Your control plane mimics that aggregation layer on a laptop-first stack.
Core concepts
