VMware Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations
Length 4 days
Price
$5269 inc GST
Course overview
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Why study this course
This four-day course is the first step in learning about Containers and Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations. Through a series of lectures and lab exercises, the fundamental concepts of containers and Kubernetes are presented and put to practice by containerizing and deploying a two-tier application into Kubernetes.
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What you’ll learn
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Build, test, and publish Docker container images
Become familiar with YAML files that define Kubernetes objects
Understand Kubernetes core user-facing concepts, including pods, services, and deployments
Use kubectl, the Kubernetes CLI, and become familiar with its commands and options
Understand the architecture of Kubernetes (Control plane and its components, worker nodes, and kubelet)
Learn how to troubleshoot issues with deployments on Kubernetes
Apply resource requests, limits, and probes to deployments
Manage dynamic application configuration using ConfigMaps and Secrets
Deploy other workloads, including DaemonSets, Jobs, and CronJobs
Learn about user-facing security using SecurityContext, RBAC, and NetworkPolicies
VMware at Lumify Work
VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technologies. Lumify Work is the largest VMware Authorized Training Center (VATC) in Australia and New Zealand, offering training in vSphere, Aria Suite, vRealize, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation courses.
Anyone who is preparing to build and run Kubernetes clusters.
Course subjects
1. Course Introduction
Introductions and objectives
2. Containers
What and Why containers
Building images
Running containers
Registry and image management
3. Kubernetes Overview
Kubernetes project
Plugin interfaces
Building Kubernetes
Kubectl CLI
4. Beyond Kubernetes Basics
Kubernetes objects
YAML
Pods, replicas, and deployments
Services
Deployment management
Rolling updates
Controlling deployments
Pod and container configurations
5. Kubernetes Networking
Networking within a pod
Pod-to-Pod Networking
Services to Pods
ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer
Ingress controllers
Service Discovery via DNS
6. Stateful Applications in Kubernetes
Stateless versus Stateful
Volumes
Persistent volumes claims
StorageClasses
StatefulSets
7. Additional Kubernetes Considerations
Dynamic configuration
ConfigMaps
Secrets
Jobs, CronJobs
8. Security
Network policy
Applying a NetworkPolicy
SecurityContext
runAsUser/Group
Service accounts
Role-based access control
9. Logging and Monitoring
Logging for various objects
Sidecar logging
Node logging
Audit logging
Monitoring architecture
Monitoring solutions
Octant
VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
10. Cluster Operations
Onboarding new applications
Backups
Upgrading
Drain and cordon commands
Impact of an upgrade to running applications
Troubleshooting commands
VMware Tanzu™ portfolio overview
Prerequisites
Linux concepts and command line proficiency
General networking proficiency
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