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VMware Tanzu Mission Control: Management and Operations

Length 3 days
Price $4301 inc GST
Version 2024

Course overview

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Why study this course

During this three-day course, students focus on using VMware Tanzu® Mission Control™ to provision and manage Kubernetes clusters. The course covers how to apply image registry, network, security, quota, custom, and mutation policies to Kubernetes environments. It focuses on how to deploy, upgrade, back up, and monitor Kubernetes clusters on VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu®, and it also covers package management using the VMware Tanzu Mission Control catalog.

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What you’ll learn

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control architecture
Configure user and group access
Create and manage Kubernetes clusters
Create image registry, network, quota, security, custom, access, and mutation policies
Connect your on-premises vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor to VMware Tanzu Mission Control
Create, manage, and back up VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters
Create and manage Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters
Perform cluster inspections
Manage packages in your clusters
Monitor and secure Kubernetes environments

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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.

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Who is the course for?

Administrators or application owners who are responsible for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and workloads.

Course subjects

1. Course Introduction

Introduction and course logistics
Course Objectives

2. Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control

Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control
Describe vSphere with Tanzu
Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Describe VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations
Describe how to manage Kubernetes clusters
Explain VMware Tanzu Mission Control Self-Managed
Describe VMware Aria Operations™ for Applications
Describe VMware Tanzu® Service Mesh™ Advanced edition
Describe VMware Aria Automation™
List the open-source integrations
Describe VMware Cloud™ services
Describe the VMware Cloud services Catalog
Explain how to access VMware Tanzu Mission Control

3. VMware Tanzu Mission Control Access Tools

Explain VMware Cloud services and enterprise federation
Describe VMware Cloud services roles
Explain multifactor authentication
Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control UI
List the components of the VMware Tanzu Mission Control UI
Describe the VMware Tanzu CLI
Install the Tanzu CLI
Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control API
Access the VMware Tanzu Mission Control API

4. Management Clusters

Outline the steps for registering a management cluster to VMware Tanzu Mission Control
Discuss what a management cluster is
Describe provisioners
Explain the purpose of a cloud provider account
Describe Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Create Amazon Web Services credentials
Describe Azure Kubernetes Service

5. Workload Clusters

Describe VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters
Explain how to create a cluster
Explain how to configure a cluster
Describe Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service workload clusters
Describe Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service workload clusters
Explain how to attach a Kubernetes cluster
Explain how to verify the connections to the cluster
Describe cluster health

6. Policy Management

Describe the policy model
Describe the available policy types
Explain how access policies grant users access to different resources
Explain how image registry policies restrict from which image registries container images can be pulled
Outline how network policies are applied to clusters
Discuss how security policies control deployment of pods in a cluster
Discuss how quota policies manage resource consumption in your clusters
Discuss how custom policies implement specialised policies that govern your Kubernetes clusters
Describe mutation policies
Explain how Policy Insights reports VMware Tanzu Mission Control policy issues

7. VMware Tanzu Mission Control Catalog

Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control catalog
Explain how to install packages
Describe network packages
Describe Fluent-Bit
Explain Prometheus and Grafana
Describe Harbor
Describe Flux
Describe Helm
Describe Git repositories

8. Day 2 Operations

Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control Data Protection
Describe the purpose of cluster inspections
Identify the life cycle management options supported for the different workload cluster types
List the steps to scale, upgrade, and delete clusters

Prerequisites

Experience deploying and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters
Experience with Kubernetes RBAC, network policies, resource quotas, and pod security policies

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