Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations Course Overview

Enroll for the 4-day Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations certification training course from this courseSolutions accredited by VMware. In this course you will learn about Containers and Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations.

Through a blend of hands-on labs and interactive lectures, you will learn the fundamental concepts of containers and Kubernetes are presented and put to practice by containerizing and deploying a two-tier application into Kubernetes.

Target Audience:

Anyone who is preparing to build and run Kubernetes clusters.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

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

Module 1: Course Introduction

Introduction

Module 2: Containers

What and Why containers

Building images

Running containers

Registry and image management

Module 3: Kubernetes Overview

Kubernetes project

Plugin interfaces

Building Kubernetes

Kubectl CLI

Module 4: Beyond Kubernetes Basics

Kubernetes objects

YAML

Pods, replicas, and deployments

Services

Deployment management

Rolling updates

Controlling deployments

Pod and container configurations

Module 5: Kubernetes Networking

Networking within a pod

Pod-to-Pod Networking

Services to Pods

ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer

Ingress controllers

Service Discovery via DNS

Module 6: Stateful Applications in Kubernetes

Stateless versus Stateful

Volumes

Persistent volumes claims

StorageClasses

StatefulSets

Module 7: Additional Kubernetes Considerations

Dynamic configuration

ConfigMaps

Secrets

Jobs, CronJobs

Module 8: Security

Network policy

Applying a NetworkPolicy

Module 9: Logging and Monitoring

Logging for various objects

Sidecar logging

Node logging

Audit logging

Monitoring architecture

Monitoring solutions

Octant

VMware vRealize® Operations ManagerTM

Module 10: Cluster Operations

Onboarding new applications

Backups

Upgrading

Drain and cordon commands

Impact of an upgrade to running applications

Troubleshooting commands

VMware TanzuTM portfolio overview

Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations Singapore.