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Kates Tutorials

Hands-on tutorials for learning Kates — from your first test to advanced chaos engineering.

Tutorial List

The table gives each tutorial's level, a rough duration, and the tutorials it builds on:

# Tutorial Level Duration Prerequisites
1 Getting Started Beginner 15 min None
2 Running Every Test Type Beginner 30 min Tutorial 1
3 Chaos Engineering with Kates Intermediate 45 min Tutorials 1–2
4 Data Integrity Under Fire Intermediate 30 min Tutorial 3
5 Heatmaps, Trends, and Exports Intermediate 20 min Tutorial 1
6 CI/CD Integration Advanced 30 min Tutorials 1–2
7 Kyverno & Security Intermediate 30 min Tutorial 1
8 Deploy, Detect & Clean Beginner → Intermediate 25 min Tutorial 1
9 Kafka Connect Working Examples (CDC + JDBC) Intermediate 35 min Tutorial 1
– Kafka Connect Source/Sink Quick Runbook Intermediate 15 min Tutorial 1
10 Installing and Setting Up MirrorMaker 2 Intermediate 30 min Tutorial 1
11 Migrating Kafka 2.x to 4.x Advanced 60 min Tutorial 10
12 Migrating Kafka 3.x to 4.x Intermediate 40 min Tutorial 10
13 Using the Grafana Dashboards Intermediate 45 min Tutorial 1
14 Using Kates from an AI Agent Intermediate 20 min Tutorial 1

Tutorials 10–12 rehearse a migration on Kind, where nothing costs anything if it goes wrong. When you are ready to migrate a real cluster, the chart's own migration guides cover the decisions, credentials and checks that a lab does not have.

Skill Progression

The tutorials are designed to build on each other. Here's the recommended learning path:

Tutorial 1 (Getting Started)
    ├── Tutorial 2 (Test Types) ──── Tutorial 3 (Chaos) ──── Tutorial 4 (Integrity)
    ├── Tutorial 5 (Observability) ──── Tutorial 13 (Grafana Dashboards)
    ├── Tutorial 6 (CI/CD) ← requires Tutorial 2
    ├── Tutorial 7 (Security)
    ├── Tutorial 8 (Deploy & Detect)
    ├── Tutorial 9 (Kafka Connect)
    ├── Tutorial 14 (AI agent over MCP, read-only)
    └── Tutorial 10 (MirrorMaker 2) ──── Tutorials 11–12 (cross-version migration)
  • Start here: Tutorial 1 is required for all others.
  • Performance track: Tutorials 1 → 2 → 5 — learn test types, then understand the metrics.
  • Observability track: Tutorials 1 → 5 → 13 — the CLI's own views of a run first, then the twelve Grafana boards that watch the cluster around it.
  • Chaos track: Tutorials 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 — build up to chaos engineering and data integrity.
  • Operations track: Tutorials 1 → 8 → 7 — deployment, security, and lifecycle management.

Prerequisites

All tutorials assume:

  • The full stack is deployed (make all + make kates)
  • The CLI is installed (make cli-install)
  • The CLI is configured with a context that carries the API key, as the Quick Start in Introduction sets it up (kates ctx set local --url http://localhost:30083 --api-key …)

Resource Requirements

All tutorials run on the default Kind cluster. Minimum resources:

  • CPU: 6 cores available to Docker
  • Memory: 16 GB available to Docker
  • Disk: 30 GB free space