The experience of developing a training course dedicated to the basics of the Kubernetes container orchestrator is presented, which includes the principles of container virtualization, architectural features and key components of the Kubernetes platform, deploying and scaling applications based on it. The structure of the practical part of the course, measures to ensure the operability of the studied software in the conditions of an isolated network segment and limited Internet access are given, and ways to overcome the high entrance threshold of Kubernetes are discussed.